to strike (lightly or severely · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Jeremiah
יִרְמְיָ֣הוּyir.me.Ya.hu
H3414
Jirmejah · proper noun, a man's name
prophet
הַנָּבִ֑יאha.na.Vi'
H5030
a prophet or (generally) inspired man · definite article + noun, common masculine singular absolute
put
וַיִּתֵּ֨ןvai.yi.Ten
H5414
to give · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
stocks
הַמַּהְפֶּ֗כֶתha.mah.Pe.khet
H4115
a wrench · definite article + noun, common feminine singular absolute
high
הָֽעֶלְי֔וֹןha.'el.Yon
H5945
an elevation · definite article + adjective, masculine singular absolute
gate
בְּשַׁ֤עַרbe.Sha.'ar
H8179
an opening · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
Benjamin
בִּנְיָמִן֙bin.ya.Min
H1144
Binjamin · proper noun, a man's name
house
בְּבֵ֥יתbe.Veit
H1004
a house (in the greatest variation of applications · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
LORD
יְהוָֽהYah.weh
H3068
Jehovah · proper noun, a title
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Jeremiah 37:13 And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah;…
2 Chronicles 16:10 Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some…
Jeremiah 1:19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.
Zechariah 14:10 All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from…
1 Kings 22:27 And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I com…
2 Chronicles 24:21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
Jeremiah 29:26 The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that…
Jeremiah 36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the sc…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 20:1-6
Here is, I. Pashur's unjust displeasure against Jeremiah, and the fruits of that displeasure, Jer 20:1, Jer 20:2. This Pashur was a priest, and therefore, one would think, should have protected Jeremiah, who was of his own order, a priest too, and the more because he was a prophet of the Lord, whose interests the priests, his ministers, ought to consult. But this priest was a persecutor of him whom he should have patronized. He was the son of Immer; that is, he was of the sixteenth course of the priests, of which Immer, when these courses were first settled by David, was father (Ch1 24:14), as Zechariah was of the order of Abiah, Luk 1:5. Thus this Pashur is distinguished from another of the…
The fact that Pashur was of the same order and of the same family as Jeremiah aggravates the indignity of the blow (Kg1 22:24; Mat 26:67).
stocks--an instrument of torture with five holes, in which the neck, two hands, and two feet were thrust, the body being kept in a crooked posture (Jer 29:26). From a Hebrew root, to "turn," or "rack." This marks Pashur's cruelty.
high--that is, the upper gate (Kg2 15:35).
gate of Benjamin--a gate in the temple wall, corresponding to the gate of Benjamin, properly so called, in the city wall, in the direction of the territory of Benjamin (Jer 7:2; Jer 37:13; Jer 38:7). The temple gate of Benjamin, being on a lofty position, was called "the high gate…
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, the people not to believe him; or he ordered him to be smitten and scourged by some inferior officer. This was very ill treatment of a prophet, a prophet of the Lord, and one that was a priest too, of the same order with himself;
and put him in the stocks; or ordered him to be put there; but whether it was such an engine or instrument as we call "stocks", in which the feet of prisoners are put, is not certain. Kimchi's father says, it was an instrument made of two pieces of wood, in which the ne…
The Church Fathers
…The enchanters of the Egyptians also had rods, rods that wished to slander the rod of Moses and that of Aaron as though they were not from God. But those from God overturn those of the sophists and enchanters: "the rod of Aaron swallowed them up"; for this rod sufficed for this even without the rod of Moses. So Paschor "struck Jeremiah the prophet," and with emphasis: "and he struck Jeremiah the prophet." "The prophet" is added. Here, then, the one who struck struck Jeremiah the prophet. But it is recorded in the Acts that someone struck Paul, being ordered to do so by Ananias the high priest. Wherefore Paul said: "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall." And even now the Ebionites, ordered by a transgressing high priest of the word, strike the apostle of Jesus Christ with blasphemous words. And Paul says to such a high priest of the word: "God is going to strike you." And such a high priest is on the surface fair and a whitewashed wall, but "within full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness." But why do I speak concerning Paul and Jeremiah? My Lord Jesus Christ himself says: "I gave my back to scourges, and my cheeks to blows, and I did not turn my face away from the shame of spitting." The simple know these things as belonging only to that time then, when Pilate scourged him, when the Jews took counsel against him. But I see Jesus daily "giving his back to scourges." Enter into the synagogues of the Jews, and see Jesus scourged by them with the tongue of blasphemy. See those gathered from the nations, taking counsel against Christians—in what manner they seize Jesus—and he "gives his own back to scourges." Consider the Word of God insulted, spoken against, hated by the unbelievers. See that "he gave his cheeks to blows," and having taught that if anyone strike "you on the cheek, turn to him the other also," he himself does this. So many strike him and scourge him, and he is silent and does not speak. For it is recorded that he did not speak while being scourged. And "his face until now Jesus has not turned away from the shame of spitting." Which of those who make light of the teaching does not, as it were, spit even until now upon the Jesus who endures it? It followed, after the prophet had been struck, to recount those who were struck—as, for instance, to speak of the apostle and if any other has been struck, and to set forth also the things…
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Benjamin, High Gate Or Gate Of — (Jeremiah 20:2; 37:13; 38:7; Zechariah 14:10) [Jerusalem]
Dungeon — Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. Like the Roman inner prison (Acts 16:24), it consisted of a deep cell or cistern (Jer. 38:6). To be shut up in, a…
Jerusalem — Called also Salem, Ariel, Jebus, the “city of God,” the “holy city;” by the modern Arabs el-Khuds, meaning “the holy;” once “the city of Judah” (2 Chr. 25:28). This name is in the original in the…
Pashur — Release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah, Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was “chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning “deputy governor”] of the…
Punishments — The earliest theory of punishment current among mankind is doubtless the one of simple retaliation, “blood for blood.” Viewed historically, the first case of punishment for crime mentioned in…
Stocks — (An instrument of punishment, consisting of two beams, the upper one being movable, with two small openings between them, large enough for the ankles of the prisoner.—ED.) The term “stocks” is…
Church · HOUSE OF THE LOR — HOUSE OF THE LOR
Gates · Punishment of criminals outsi — Punishment of criminals outsi
Immer · 5. Father of Pashur — 5. Father of Pashur
Jeremiah · pri — pri
Pashur · .Beats and impri — .Beats and impri
Punishments · Secondary kinds of: Confinement in stocks
Jeremiah 20:1-2
1. Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
1. Et audivit Phassur filius Immer sacerdos et ipse praefeetus erat (dux) in Templo (in aede) Jehovae, Jeremiam vaticinantem (prophetantem) hos sermones:
2. 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.
2. Et percussit Phassur Jeremiam Prophetam, et posuit eum in cippum (vel, in carcerem; sed mihi magis placet nomen carceris) qui erat in porta Benjamin superiore, quae spectabat ad aedem Jehovae.
Jeremiah relates here what sort of reward…
The persecution suffered by Jeremiah moved from words to action. Jeremiah was whipped and placed in stocks overnight on the charge that he had blasphemed the Temple. When he was released, Jeremiah gave his jailer a message of personal condemnation from the Lord.
20:1-2 Pashhur, the head of the police who kept order in the Temple area, ranked second to the high priest in authority. Evidently, he had heard Jeremiah proclaim the Lord’s decree about the destruction of Jerusalem, including the Temple. He regarded it as such blasphemy that he thought Jeremiah should be punished.
Rashi on Jeremiah 20:2
and placed him in the prison the name of a place of a prison, and Jonathan rendered: לכיפתא (arvolud in O.F.), a vault.
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
