And he that curseth his father, or his mother
Though he does not smite them with his hand, or with any
instrument in it, yet if he smites them with his tongue, reviles
and reproaches them, speaks evil of them, wishes dreadful
imprecations upon them, curses them by the name explained, as the
Targum of Jonathan calls it, by the name Jehovah, wishing the
Lord would curse them, or that his curse might light upon them,
see ( Proverbs
20:20 ) ( 30:17 ) ,
shall surely be put to death;
or be killed with casting stones on him, as the Targum of
Jonathan, or with stoning; so Jarchi, who observes, that wherever
it is said, "his blood be upon him", it is meant of stoning, as
it is of the man that curses his father or his mother, ( Leviticus
20:9 ) which was after this manner, the place of stoning was
two cubits high, to which the malefactor with his hands bound was
brought; from whence one of the witnesses against him cast him
down headlong, of which, if he did not die, then they took up
stones and cast on him, and if he died not through them, then all
Israel came and stoned him; that is, the multitude upon the spot:
this verse in the Septuagint version follows ( Exodus 21:15
) , with which it agrees, both respecting the same persons.