Jeremiah 20:1-7

Jeremiah and Pashhur

1 When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, the official in charge of the temple of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things,
2 he had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put in the stocks at the Upper Gate of Benjamin at the LORD’s temple.
3 The next day, when Pashhur released him from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD’s name for you is not Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side.
4 For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends; with your own eyes you will see them fall by the sword of their enemies. I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, who will carry them away to Babylon or put them to the sword.
5 I will deliver all the wealth of this city into the hands of their enemies—all its products, all its valuables and all the treasures of the kings of Judah. They will take it away as plunder and carry it off to Babylon.
6 And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into exile to Babylon. There you will die and be buried, you and all your friends to whom you have prophesied lies.’ ”

Jeremiah’s Complaint

7 You deceived[a] me, LORD, and I was deceived[b] ; you overpowered me and prevailed. I am ridiculed all day long; everyone mocks me.

Cross References 17

  • 1. S 1 Chronicles 24:14
  • 2. 2 Kings 25:18; Luke 22:52
  • 3. Deuteronomy 25:2-3; S Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 15:15; Jeremiah 37:15; 2 Corinthians 11:24
  • 4. S Job 13:27; Jeremiah 29:26; Acts 16:24; Hebrews 11:36
  • 5. S Job 29:7; Jeremiah 37:13; Jeremiah 38:7; Zechariah 14:10
  • 6. Hosea 1:4
  • 7. S ver 10; S Psalms 31:13
  • 8. Jeremiah 29:21
  • 9. Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 25:9
  • 10. Jeremiah 13:19; Jeremiah 39:9; Jeremiah 52:27
  • 11. S 2 Kings 25:15; Jeremiah 17:3
  • 12. S 2 Kings 20:17
  • 13. S Jeremiah 14:15; Lamentations 2:14
  • 14. S Exodus 5:23; Exodus 22:16
  • 15. Isaiah 8:11; Amos 3:8; 1 Corinthians 9:16
  • 16. Job 12:4
  • 17. S Job 17:2; S Psalms 119:21

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