Jeremiah 20:2
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| Overview - Jeremiah 20 | |
| 1 | Pashur, smiting Jeremiah, receives a new name, and a fearful doom. |
| 7 | Jeremiah complains of contempt; |
| 10 | of treachery; |
| 14 | and of his birth. |
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Jeremiah 20:2 (King James Version)
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.
- smote
- 1:19 Jeremiah 19:14 Jeremiah 19:15 26:8 29:26 36:26 Jeremiah 37:15 Jeremiah 37:16 38:6 1 Kings 22:27
- 2 Chronicles 16:10 ; 24:21 Amos 7:10-13 ; Matthew 5:10-12 ; 21:35 23:34-37 Acts 4:3
- Acts 5:18 Acts 5:40 ; 7:52 16:22-24 Hebrews 11:36 Hebrews 11:37 ; Revelation 2:10 ; 17:6
- the stocks
- {Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, ( Deuteronomy 29:22 . Isaiah 1:7 ; 10:19, ) and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which
- the limbs were distorted into uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, {keephtha} and Jerome, {nervus,} which he explains in his comment as "a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, {vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur.} Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious.* in the high.
37:13 38:7 Zec 14:10