What does Jeremiah 20:2 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD."
Verse Jeremiah 20:2. _PUT HIM IN THE STOCKS_] Probably such a place near the gate as we term the _lock-up_, the _coal-hole_; or it may mean a sort of _dungeon_....
JEREMIAH THE PROPHET - Jeremiah is nowhere so called in the first 19 chapters. In this place he thus characterizes himself, because Pashur’s conduct was a violation of the respect due to the prophetic...
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 follo...
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...
SMOTE. Perhaps according to Deuteronomy 25:3. HIGH. upper. Probably north of the Temple, which looked toward the gate of Benjamin....
_the stocks_ Cp. Jeremiah 29:26. See HDB. I. 527 for anything that is known with reference to this mode of punishment as applied then. _upper gate of Benjamin, which was in, etc_.] the northern gate...
AND PUT HIM IN THE STOCKS— Houbigant renders the whole verse, _This Pashur apprehended Jeremiah the prophet, and put him into the prison which lieth near the upper gate of Benjamin, which is near,_ &c...
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...
Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. THEN PASHUR SMOTE JEREMIAH. The fact that Pashur was o...
1-6. Pashur's act and Jeremiah's reply....
THEN PASHUR SMOTE JEREMIAH THE PROPHET. — It is the first time that he has been so described, the office to which he was called being apparently named to emphasise the outrage which had been inflicted...
וַ יַּכֶּ֣ה פַשְׁח֔וּר אֵ֖ת יִרְמְיָ֣הוּ הַ נָּבִ֑יא וַ יִּתֵּ֨ן אֹתֹ֜ו עַל ־הַ מַּהְפֶּ֗כֶת אֲשֶׁ֨ר...
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...
Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the (a) stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the house of the LORD. (a) Thus we see that the thing which neither the...
_Struck, or seized. (Grotius) --- Upper gate, nearer the temple. (Calmet)_...
Reader! pause over this account. Recollect how Jeremiah was called to the prophet's office: Chap. 1:5. Recollect the long and painful office he had now exercised, and the universal disregard he found...
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...
THEN PASHUR SMOTE JEREMIAH THE PROPHET,.... Either with his fist, or with a rod, while he was prophesying, to stop his mouth, and hinder him from going on, and to show his resentment, and influence, t...
Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin, which [was] by the house of the LORD. Ver. 2. _Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet._] Ei...
_Then Pashur smote Jeremiah_, &c. He thought, no doubt, that Jeremiah's speaking so plainly of the overthrow of Jerusalem, and of the miseries which should befall it, deserved that he should be arrest...
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...
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 on...
THEN PASHUR SMOTE JEREMIAH; it is not said how he struck him, though some think it most probable that it was with his _fist, _ as the false prophet struck Micaiah, 1 KINGS 22:24. We are as uncertain w...
Jeremiah 20:2 Pashhur H6583 struck H5221 (H8686) Jeremiah H3414 prophet H5030 put H5414 (H8799) stocks H4115 high H5945 gate H8179 Benjamin H1144 house H1004 LORD H3068 smote - Jeremiah 1:19, Jeremia...
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 re...
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 e...
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...
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 prophesi...
1 Kings 22:27; 2 Chronicles 16:10; 2 Chronicles 24:21; Acts 16:22; Acts 4:3; Acts 5:18; Acts 5:40; Acts 7:52; Amos 7:10; Deuteronomy 29:22