Leviticus 24:11 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

The name of the Lord The words of the Lord, or of Jehovah, are supplied out of Leviticus 24:16, where they are expressed; here they are omitted, perhaps for the aggravation of his crime. He blasphemed the name So called by way of eminence; that name which is above every name; that name which a man should in some sort tremble to mention; which is not to be named without cause, or without reverence. And cursed Not the Israelite only, but his God also, as appears from Leviticus 24:15-16. And they brought him Either the people who heard him, or the inferior magistrate, to whom he was first brought.

Leviticus 24:11

11 And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name of the LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)