Jeremia 20:2

2 da schlug Paschchur den Propheten Jeremia, und legte ihn in den Stock im oberen Tore Benjamin, das im Hause Jehovas ist.

Jeremia 20:2 Meaning and Commentary

Jeremiah 20:2

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 necks of prisoners were put; and some say it had besides two holes for the two hands to be put in; and so the same with our "pillory". The Septuagint render it "a cataract", a ditch or dungeon. Jarchi interprets it a prison; and so our translators render the word in ( Jeremiah 29:26 ) ; however, it was a place of confinement, if not of torture and pain; that [were] in the high gate of Benjamin;
here were these stocks, pillory, or prison; which was either a gate of the city of Jerusalem, so called, because it looked towards and led out to the tribe of Benjamin, ( Jeremiah 37:13 ) ( 38:7 ) ; or a gate of the temple, which stood on that side of it that belonged to the tribe of Benjamin; both the city and temple being partly in the tribe of Judah, and partly in the tribe of Benjamin; and it seems by this that there was an upper and lower gate of this name; and the following clause seems to incline to this sense: which [was] by the house of the Lord;
or, "in the house of the Lord" {w}; the temple.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 (hwhy tybb) "in domo Jehovae", Pagninus, Montanus, Vatablus, Piscator, Cocceius, Schmidt.

Jeremia 20:2 In-Context

1 Und als Paschchur, der Sohn Immers, der Priester (er war Oberaufseher im Hause Jehovas), Jeremia diese Worte weissagen hörte,

2 da schlug Paschchur den Propheten Jeremia, und legte ihn in den Stock im oberen Tore Benjamin, das im Hause Jehovas ist.

3 Und es geschah am folgenden Tage, als Paschchur Jeremia aus dem Stock herausbringen ließ, da sprach Jeremia zu ihm: Nicht Paschchur heißt Jehova deinen Namen, sondern Magor-Missabib.

4 Denn so spricht Jehova: Siehe, ich mache dich zum Schrecken, dir selbst und allen deinen Freunden; und sie sollen durch das Schwert ihrer Feinde fallen, indem deine Augen es sehen; und ich werde ganz Juda in die Hand des Königs von Babel geben, damit er sie nach Babel wegführe und sie mit dem Schwerte erschlage.

5 Und ich werde den ganzen Reichtum dieser Stadt dahingeben und all ihren Erwerb und alle ihr Kostbarkeiten; und alle Schätze der Könige von Juda werde ich in die Hand ihrer Feinde geben; und sie werden sie plündern und wegnehmen und nach Babel bringen.