But the houses] There is no generall rule but hath some exception; and here is one (of great moment) from the ordinary redemption at the yeer of Jubile; houses in villages that had no walls, were to be redeemed in that yeer, but not houses in walled cities; for they must be redeemed within a full yeer, or not at all: and this was either in favour to cities, the better to furnish them with inhabitants, & to keep the houses in good repaire; or for caution to the owners, that by ill husbandry they might not be put to part with them; or else, because houses in cities, no nor cities themselves were so distinctly sorted to tribes, as houses in the countrey, and the lands annexed to them; for the Levites had cities in sundry tribes, and yet had no divided protion of land allotted to them, as the other tribes had: What is here said of houses, may be applyed to some parcells of ground in walled towns; as that which David bought (mount Moria) for the building of the temple in Jerusalem; the like is held of such grounds as yeild no profit, as gardens of pleasure, and the potters field for buriall.