Matthew Poole and continuators on 1 Kings 21:10

10 And set two men, sons of Belial, before him, to bear witness against him, saying, Thou didst blaspheme ▪ God and the king: and then carry him out , and stone him that he may die .

Heb. Bless. Blessing is put for cursing and blaspheming, as Iob 1. 5. and 2. 9. so also here, as is apparent, because his blessing God and the king had been no Crime. It is a Figure called Euphemismus. God would have Blasphemy so much abhorred, that it should not easily and unnecessarily be named by its proper name▪ Compare Psal. 16. 4.

To the place where Malefactors were punished, which was out of the City, Lev. 24. 23. Ios. 7. 24. Mar. 15. 20. Heb. 13. 12. partly, to shew that they were unworthy of all humane society, and abhorred by all the people: and partly, because the place where they were killed, was thereby ceremonially polluted.

The proper punishment of Blasphemers, Lev. 24. 15, 16.

As one that Cursed his God, and his Political Father, his King. See Exod. 21. 17. and 22. 28.

Marginal references: Heb. bless. So Gr. Job 2. 5, 9.; Act. 6. 11.; [illegible: 1+ letters]ev. 24. 14.