Study it in the app“and seat two men, perverse men, opposite him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You have cursed Elohim and the king’; then take him out and stone him, and let him die.””
and seatוְהוֹשִׁיבוּtwoשְׁנַיִםmen,אֲנָשִׁיםperverse men,בְּנֵי בְלִיַּעַלopposite him,נֶגְדּוֹand let them testify against him,וִיעִדֻהוּsaying,לֵאמֹר‘You have cursedבֵּרַכְתָּElohimאֱלֹהִיםand the king’;וָמֶלֶךְthen take him outוְהוֹצִיאֻהוּand stone him,וְסִקְלֻהוּand let him die.”וְיָמֹת
sit
To sit; or sit on the throne to reign.
Where else “hoshivu” appearstwo
A pair, a quantity of two.
Where else “shenayim” appearsman
An adult male person; also each man of a people, a trade or a place.
Where else “anashim” appearsdescendant
A descendant or member of a people: "sons of Israel".
Where else “bene” appearsworthlessness, wickedness
Worthlessness, a thing of no value: "sons of belial" are worthless people who do evil. Later it was used as a name for the evil one (2 Corinthians 6:15).
Where else “veliyaal” appearsin front of
In someone's presence, before his eyes.
Where else “negd” appearstestify
To declare what one knows, or summon others to vouch for one's words.
Where else “yidu” appearssay
To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
Where else “mor” appearscurse
Said as its opposite, wishing someone harm.
Where else “berachta” appearsElohim
The one true God, the Creator; the word is plural but means one.
Where else “elohim” appearsking
A king who rules a people.
Where else “melech” appearsgo out
To go out of a place.
Where else “hotsiu” appearsstone
To pelt someone with rocks, or kill them so.
Where else “siklu” appearsdie
To cease living; also, one who has ceased living.
Where else “yamot” appears“You have cursed”: the Hebrew says literally “you have blessed.” It is a reverent way of writing: it avoids putting the words “curse” and “Elohim” together (the same in Job 1:5; 2:9). The law punished that offense with death and required two witnesses (Exodus 22:28; Leviticus 24:16; Deuteronomy 17:6).
9And she wrote in the letters, saying, “Proclaim a fast, and seat Naboth at the head of the people;
10 · This verse (above)
11The men of his city, the elders and the nobles who lived in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letters that she had sent to them.
