Jeremiah 20:1

Now Phassur the son of Emmur, the priest, who was appointed chief in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremias prophesying these words.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.

In Context

2And Phassur struck Jeremias the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:18And the general of the army took Seraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the second priest, and three doorkeepers.

2 Chronicles 35:8And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to the people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the priests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

Nehemiah 7:40The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two.

Acts 5:24Now when the officer of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt concerning them, what would come to pass.

Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 20:1

Such plain dealing as Jeremiah used in the foregoing chapter, one might easily foresee, if it did not convince and humble men, would provoke and exasperate them; and so it did; for here we find, I. Jeremiah persecuted by Pashur for preaching that sermon, ver. 1, 2 . II. Pashur threatened for so doing, and the word which Jeremiah had preached confirmed, ver. 3-6 . III. Jeremiah complaining to God concerning it, and the other instances of hard measure that he had since he began to be a prophet, and the grievous… Read the whole commentary →

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