Jeremías 20:2

2 hizo azotar al profeta Jeremías y lo puso en el cepo que estaba en la puerta superior de Benjamín, la cual conducía a la casa del SEÑOR.

Jeremías 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.

Jeremías 20:2 In-Context

1 Cuando el sacerdote Pasur, hijo de Imer, que era el oficial principal en la casa del SEÑOR, oyó a Jeremías profetizar estas cosas,

2 hizo azotar al profeta Jeremías y lo puso en el cepo que estaba en la puerta superior de Benjamín, la cual conducía a la casa del SEÑOR.

3 Y al día siguiente, cuando Pasur soltó a Jeremías del cepo, Jeremías le dijo: No es Pasur el nombre con que el SEÑOR ahora te llama, sino Magor-misabib .

4 Porque así dice el SEÑOR: "He aquí, te voy a convertir en terror para ti mismo y para todos tus amigos; ellos caerán por la espada de tus enemigos, y tus ojos lo verán. Entregaré a todo Judá en manos del rey de Babilonia, y él los llevará como desterrados a Babilonia y los matará a espada.

5 "También entregaré toda la riqueza de esta ciudad, todos sus productos y cosas de gran valor, y todos los tesoros de los reyes de Judá, en manos de sus enemigos, que los saquearán, los tomarán y se los llevarán a Babilonia.