1 Kings 21:13

And there came in [Heb. came . The assembly was probably held al fresco . From the word אֶמֶשׁ , A.V. yesterday, but strictly, yesternight, Stanley suggests that the trial took place by night. But the word is often used in the wider sense of "yesterday" (Gesenius)] two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people [The whole congregation was interested in a charge of blasphemy. If unpunished, the guilt rested on the congregation. Hence the provision of Deuteronomy 24:14 . By the imposition of hands they testified that the guilt of the blasphemer thenceforth rested upon his own head], saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth [Heb. made him to go forth ] out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died. [It appears from 2 Kings 9:26 that the children of Naboth, who otherwise might have laid claim to their patrimony, were put to death at the same time, and probably in the same way; cf. Joshua 7:24 , Joshua 7:25 ; Numbers 16:27 . This was the rule of the East ( Daniel 6:24 ). The principle of visiting the sins of the parents upon the children seems to have been carried to an excess, as we find Joash ( 2 Kings 14:6 ) instituting a more merciful rule.]