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The meaning of Pashur in the Bible
(From Easton's Bible Dictionary)
release. The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah, Nehemiah 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was "chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning "deputy governor"] of the temple" (Jeremiah 20:1,2). At this time the nagid , or "governor," of the temple was Seraiah the high priest (I Chronicles 6:14), and Pashur was his paqid , or "deputy." Enraged at the plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of coming judgements, because of the abounding iniquity of the times, Pashur ordered the temple police to seize him, and after inflicting on him corporal punishment (forty stripes save one, Deuteronomy 25:3; Compare II Corinthians 11:24), to put him in the stocks in the high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night. On being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur (Jeremiah 20:3,5), and announced to him that God had changed his name to Magor-missabib, i.e., "terror on every side." The punishment that fell upon him was probably remorse, when he saw the ruin he had brought upon his country by advising a close alliance with Egypt in opposition to the counsels of (Jeremiah 20:4-6). He was carried captive to Babylon, and died there. A priest sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord (I Chronicles 24:9; Jeremiah 21:1; 38:1-6). He advised that the prophet should be put to death. The father of Gedaliah. He was probably the same as (1).
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Pashur {Hitchcock's Bible Name}
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