Jer 20:1-2, 38:1-6, Mat 21:35, 22:6, 23:34-37, Luk 13:33-34, Act 7:51-52 | TSK | STEP | Pashur, smiting Jeremiah, receives a new name, and a fearful doom. Jeremiah complains of contempt; of treachery; and of his birth. Immer. chief.

Jeremiah 20:1-2

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.

Immer.

1Ch 24:14; Ezr 2:37,38; Ne 7:40,41

chief.

2Ki 25:18; 2Ch 35:8; Ac 4:1; 5:24

smote.

1:19; 19:14,15; 26:8; 29:26; 36:26; 37:15,16; 38:6; 1Ki 22:27

2Ch 16:10; 24:21; Am 7:10-13; Mt 5:10-12; 21:35; 23:34-37; Ac 4:3

Ac 5:18,40; 7:52; 16:22-24; Heb 11:36,37; Re 2:10; 17:6

the stocks.{Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, (De 29:22. Isa 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

Jeremiah 38:1-6

1 Jeremiah, by a false suggestion, is put into the dungeon of Malchiah.

7 Edeb-melech, by suit, gets him some enlargement.

14 Upon secret conference, he counsels the king by yielding to save his life.

24 By the king's instructions he conceals the conference from the princes.

Shephatiah.

Jucal.

Jehucal. Pashur.

Melchiah.

Malchijah.

heard.

He.

17-23; 21:8,9; 24:8; 27:13; 29:18; 34:17; 42:17,22; 44:13

Eze 5:12-17; 6:11; 7:15; 14:21; Mt 24:7,8; Re 6:4-8

shall have.

21:9; 39:18; 45:5

21:10; 32:3-5

the princes.

26:11,21-23; 36:12-16; 2Ch 24:21; Eze 22:27; Mic 3:1-3; Zep 3:1-3

thus.

Ex 5:4; 1Ki 18:17,18; 21:20; Ezr 4:12; Ne 6:9; Am 7:10; Lu 23:2

Joh 11:46-50; Ac 16:20; 17:6; 24:5; 28:22

welfare. Heb. peace.

29:7

for.

1Sa 15:24; 29:9; 2Sa 3:39; 19:22; Pr 29:25; Joh 19:12-16

took.

37:21; Ps 109:5; Lu 3:19,20

into.

37:16; La 3:55; Ac 16:24; 2Co 4:8,9; Heb 10:36

Hammelech. or, the king.

36:26

and they.

11,12

And in.This dungeon, which seems to have belonged to one of Zedekiah's sons, appears to have been a most dreadful place; the horrors of which were probably augmented by the cruelty of the jailor. "The eastern people," observes Sir J. Chardin, "have not different prisons for the different classes of criminals; the judges do not trouble themselves about where the prisoners are confined, or how they are treated, considering it merely as a place of safety; and all that they require of the jailor is, that the prisoner be forthcoming when called for. As to the rest, he is master to do as he pleases; to treat him well or ill; to put him in irons or not; to shut him up close, or hold him in easier restraint; to admit people to him, or to suffer nobody to see him. If the jailor and his servants have large fees, let the person be the greatest rascal in the world, he shall be lodged in the jailor's own apartment, and the best part of it; and on the contrary, if those that have imprisoned a man give the jailor greater presents, or that he has a greater regard for them, he will treat the prisoner with the greatest inhumanity." This adds a double energy to those passages which speak of "the sighing of the prisoner," and to Jeremiah's supplicating that he might not be remanded to the dungeon of Jonathan. (ver. 26; ch. 37:20.)

22; Ge 37:24; Ps 40:2; 69:2,14,15; La 3:52-55; Zec 9:11