Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
Jeremiah 20:6
Thou hast prophesied lies - Pushur belonged to the warlike party, whose creed it was, that Judaea by a close alliance with Egypt might resist the arms of Assyria.
Thou hast prophesied lies - Pushur belonged to the warlike party, whose creed it was, that Judaea by a close alliance with Egypt might resist the arms of Assyria.
Verse Jeremiah 20:6. _AND THOU, PASHUR - SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY_] Thou shalt suffer for the false prophecies which thou hast delivered, and for thy insults to my prophet....
CHAPTER 20 Pashur.-Jeremiah's Perplexity and Complaint _ 1. Pashur and Jeremiah (Jeremiah 20:1) _ 2. Jeremiah's great perplexity and complaint (Jeremiah 20:7) Jeremiah 20:1. A great scene now
JEREMIAH 19:1 TO JEREMIAH 20:6. THE EARTHENWARE FLASK; JEREMIAH IN THE STOCKS. This section seems to be editorially grouped with the last because of the further reference to pottery; the original prop...
_prophesied falsely_ He thus would appear to have assumed the functions of a prophet, and to have insisted that the warnings of Jeremiah were absurd. See Jeremiah 14:13 ff....
C. The Arrest of the Prophet Jeremiah 19:14 to Jeremiah 20:6 TRANSLATION (14) And Jeremiah went from Topheth where the LORD had sent him to prophesy and he stood in the court of the house of the LORD...
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom th...
1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....
THOU SHALT COME TO BABYLON... — The sons of Immer, the section of priests to which Pashur belonged, were found in large numbers at Babylon (Ezra 2:37), and it lies in the nature of the case that he, a...
וְ אַתָּ֣ה פַשְׁח֗וּר וְ כֹל֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י בֵיתֶ
CHAPTER XIII JEREMIAH UNDER PERSECUTION Jeremiah 20:1 THE prophet has now to endure something more than a scornful rejection of his message. "And Pashchur ben Immer the priest" (he was chief officer...
The story of the persecution which this action stirred up against him follows. Pashur heard the prophecy, and, smiting the prophet, arrested and imprisoned him. On the following day Jeremiah, being br...
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thy house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy (b) friends, to whom t...
_Lie. He was therefore a false prophet, and vexed that Jeremias should contradict him. (Calmet)_...
Observe, what holy and becoming boldness in the man of God. Observe what an awful judgment Pashur is doomed to suffer. Magor-missabib, means, being encompassed with fear round about, as a girdle. It i...
Now Jeremiah declares that Pashur himself would be a proof, that he had truly foretold the destruction of the city and the desolation of the whole land. He had indeed before exposed his vanity; but he...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 19 AND 20. Chapter s 19 and 20 shew us the judgment of Jerusalem announced in terms that require little explanation; and we have in chapter 20 a sample of the...
AND THOU, PASHUR, AND ALL THAT DWELL IN THINE HOUSE, SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY,.... Particularly he and his family should not escape; whoever did: AND THOU SHALT COME TO BABYLON; being brought there, t...
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom tho...
V. 1. NOW, PASHUR, THE SON OF IMMER, THE PRIEST, WHO WAS ALSO CHIEF GOVERNOR IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, the highest commander of the Temple-watch, who was superior even to the captains of the individua...
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house, all the members of his family following him in his wickedness, SHALL GO INTO CAPTIVITY; AND THOU SHALT COME TO BABYLON, AND THERE, far from the lan...
1-6 Pashur smote Jeremiah, and put him in the stocks. Jeremiah was silent till God put a word into his mouth. To confirm this, Pashur has a name given him, "Fear on every side." It speaks a man not o...
Those that teach others to disobey the commandments of God seldom escape that vengeance which cometh upon them who are seduced by them. PASHUR was one whose office it was to have taught others the fea...
Jeremiah 20:6 Pashhur H6583 dwell H3427 (H8802) house H1004 go H3212 (H8799) captivity H7628 go H935 ...
JEREMIAH'S ACTIONS PRODUCE A VIOLENT RESPONSE FROM THE RELIGIOUS AUTHORITIES, RESULTING IN JEREMIAH PROPHESYING WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO HIS ADVERSARIES BECAUSE OF THEIR BEHAVIOUR (JEREMIAH 20:1). The res...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's first persecution. His complaint to God and encouragement in God. CHARACTERS: God, Pashur, Jeremiah, Nebuchadnezzar. CONCLUSION: Those who declare the whole counsel of God may ex...
Jeremiah 20:3. _The Lord hath not called thy name Pashur,_ which signifies security or increase; _but Magormissabib,_ a terror on every side, or terrors of a captivity. Pashur believed the prophet, ye...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 20:6 GO INTO CAPTIVITY. In 605, 597, and 587 B.C. ALL YOUR FRIENDS. Those who believed Pashhur when he PROPHESIED FALSELY that Jeremiah was wrong
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—1. CHRONOLOGY OF THE CHAPTER. With chap. 20 the first section of this book closes. Probably this was Jeremiah’s last public prophecy in Jehoiakim’s reign, and formed the...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 20:1 The continuation of the preceding narrative. PASHUR THE SON OF TRAINER. This man belonged to the sixteenth of the sacerdotal families or classes (1 Chronicles 24:14). Another...
Now Pashur (Jeremiah 20:1). And the name means "prosperity all around." Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah had prophesie...
2 Peter 2:1; Acts 13:8; Deuteronomy 28:25; Ezekiel 13:22; Ezekie