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**Pashur** = most noble. The first person named in this book, beside Jeremiah. Not the Pashur of [Jeremiah 21](../../../kjv/jeremiah/21) . This incident is in the third year of Jehoiakim, just before Nebuchadnezzar comes for the first time. [Jeremiah 2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/2) 1 is in the latter part of Zedekiah's reign, nineteen years later.
**Immer.** The ancestor of the sixteenth order of priests ([1 Chronicles 24:14](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/24/14) ).
**the priest:** i.e. Immer.
**chief governor:** i.e. Pashur.
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.*
**prophesied** = was prophesying.

**smote.** Perhaps according to [Deuteronomy 25:3](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/25/3) .
**high** = upper. Probably north of the Temple, which looked toward the gate of Benjamin.

**not called thy name Pashur.** *Pashhur* is the foreign Aramaic name, given by his parents. Jeremiah takes this Aramaic name and interprets it in Hebrew (as Isaiah had done in [Jeremiah 8:1](../../../kjv/jeremiah/8/1) , [Jeremiah 8:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/8/3) ). *Pash =* to stay (or remain on), *gur =* to sojourn or wander about in a strange land. Aramaean sehor = Hebrew. *sabib.* Hence, "Thy name is not *staying on,* but *wandering about. "* Compare [Jeremiah 20:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/3) with [Jeremiah 20:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/6) . The opposite of [Isaiah 8:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/1) , [Isaiah 8:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/3) .
**Magor-missabib.** Hebrew. *Magor- missabib =* terror-round about, or fear on every side. Compare [Jeremiah 20:10](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/10) ; [Jeremiah 6:25](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/25) ; [Jeremiah 46:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/5) , &c.

**Behold.** Figure of speech *Asterismos.*
**by the sword.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, add "at the hand of".
**the king of Babylon.** This is the first occurrence in Jeremiah.

**strength** = power, or might. Hebrew. *hasen.* Not the same word as in [Jeremiah 20:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/7) . Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Effect), for the wealth acquired by strength.

**deceived** = induced, or persuaded. Hebrew. *pathah,* in a good sense: [Genesis 9:27](../../../kjv/genesis/9/27) ("enlarge"). [Proverbs 25:15](../../../kjv/proverbs/25/15) ("persuade"). [Hosea 2:14](../../../kjv/hosea/2/14) ("allure"). The adjective *Petthi* means *persuasible,* and generally in a good sense: [Psalms 19:7](../../../kjv/psalms/19/7) ; and is rendered "simple": ([Psalms 19:7](../../../kjv/psalms/19/7) ; [Psalms 116:6](../../../kjv/psalms/116/6) ; [Psalms 119:130](../../../kjv/psalms/119/130) . [Proverbs 1:4](../../../kjv/proverbs/1/4) ; [Proverbs 8:5](../../../kjv/proverbs/8/5) ; [Proverbs 21:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/21/11) , &c.)
**stronger** = stronger (to hold fast). Hebrew. *hazak.* Not the same word as in [Jeremiah 20:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/5) .
**mocketh** = is laughing at.

**was** = became.

**fear on every side.** Hebrew. *magor-missabib,* as in [Jeremiah 20:3](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/3) . Compare [Jeremiah 6:25](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/25) ; [Jeremiah 46:5](../../../kjv/jeremiah/46/5) , &c.
**familiars** = those whom I am wont to salute. See App-85 .
**enticed** = induced, or persuaded. Hebrew. *pathah* , [Jeremiah 20:7](../../../kjv/jeremiah/20/7) .

**LORD of hosts.** See note on [Jeremiah 6:6](../../../kjv/jeremiah/6/6) , and [1 Samuel 1:3](../../../kjv/1-samuel/1/3) .
**triest** = testest.
**the righteous** = a righteous one.
**reins** = kidneys. Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), for thoughts.
**heart.** Put by Figure of speech *Metonymy* (of Subject), for the affections.

**soul.** Heb, *nephesh.* App-13 .
**poor** = helpless. Hebrew. *'ebyon.* See note on [Proverbs 6:11](../../../kjv/proverbs/6/11) .
**evildoers.** Hebrew. *ra'a'.* App-44 .

**let not the day, &c.** Figure of speech *Pleonasm.*

**man child** = a son, a male. Compare [Revelation 12:5](../../../kjv/revelation/12/5) .

**as the cities, &c.** Reference to Pentateuch ([Genesis 19:24](../../../kjv/genesis/19/24) ).
**cry:** of the besieged for help. Compare [Exodus 32](../../../kjv/exodus/32) . shouting: of the besiegers for victory [Jeremiah 17:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/17/18) .

**Wherefore . . . ?** Figure of speech *Erotesis.* Compare [Job 3](../../../kjv/job/3) .

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