Luke 4:19 Cross References

Luke 4:19

19: and that the time of the Lord's favor has come. "

He has sent me to tell those who mourn that the time of the LORD's favor has come, and with it, the day of God's anger against their enemies.

For the time has come for me to avenge my people, to ransom them from their oppressors.

"In addition, you must count off seven Sabbath years, seven years times seven, adding up to forty-nine years in all.
Then on the Day of Atonement of the fiftieth year, blow the trumpets loud and long throughout the land.
This year will be set apart as holy, a time to proclaim release for all who live there. It will be a jubilee year for you, when each of you returns to the lands that belonged to your ancestors and rejoins your clan.
Yes, the fiftieth year will be a jubilee for you. During that year, do not plant any seeds or store away any of the crops that grow naturally, and do not process the grapes that grow on your unpruned vines.
It will be a jubilee year for you, and you must observe it as a special and holy time. You may, however, eat the produce that grows naturally in the fields that year.

"I wish that even today you would find the way of peace. But now it is too late, and peace is hidden from you.

The price of their freedom will be based on the number of years left until the next Year of Jubilee--whatever it would cost to hire a servant for that number of years.
If many years still remain, they will repay most of what they received when they sold themselves.
If only a few years remain until the Year of Jubilee, then they will repay a relatively small amount for their redemption.
The foreigner must treat them as servants hired on a yearly basis. You must not allow a resident foreigner to treat any of your Israelite relatives ruthlessly.
If any Israelites have not been redeemed by the time the Year of Jubilee arrives, then they and their children must be set free at that time.

As God's partners, we beg you not to reject this marvelous message of God's great kindness.

Then when the Year of Jubilee comes, their inheritance of land will be added to that of the new tribe, causing it to be lost forever to our ancestral tribe."

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