--- title: "Jeremiah 20 - Study King James Bible with cokes commentary on the holy bible" description: "Read Jeremiah 20 with cokes commentary on the holy bible commentary. 1 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. 2 Then Pashur" image: "/_app/immutable/assets/missing.C7wGMEZ6.jpg" url: "https://realbiblebelievers.com/study/cokes-commentary-on-the-holy-bible/jeremiah/20" --- [ Read](/kjv/jeremiah/20)[ Commentary](/study/jeremiah/20)[ Interlinear](/interlinear/jeremiah/20) Audio 1 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. 2 Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that *were* in the high gate of Benjamin, which *was* by the house of the LORD. 3 And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magor-missabib.* 4 For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold *it:* and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. 5 Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. 6 And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies. 7 ¶ O LORD, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.* 8 For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word of the LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily. 9 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But *his word* was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not *stay*. 10 ¶ For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, *say they*, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, *saying*, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.* 11 But the LORD *is* with me as a mighty terrible one: therefore my persecutors shall stumble, and they shall not prevail: they shall be greatly ashamed; for they shall not prosper: *their* everlasting confusion shall never be forgotten. 12 But, O LORD of hosts, that triest the righteous, *and* seest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I opened my cause. 13 Sing unto the LORD, praise ye the LORD: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers. 14 ¶ Cursed *be* the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed. 15 Cursed *be* the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad. 16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew, and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the shouting at noontide; 17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb *to be* always great *with me*. 18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame? [Jeremiah 19](/study/jeremiah/19) [Jeremiah 21](/study/jeremiah/21) ## Commentary To verse 1 ***[Jeremiah 20:1](/kjv/jeremiah/20/1)*****.*****Now Pashur, the son of Immer*****—** Pashur was not the immediate son of Immer, but of Melchiah, as it is expressly mentioned in 1Ch 9:12 and hereafter, chap. [Jeremiah 21:1](/kjv/jeremiah/21/1). *Immer*was one of his predecessors, and head of the sixteenth sacerdotal class; [1 Chronicles 24:14](/kjv/1-chronicles/24/14). Pashur was not high-priest, as some of the ancients have thought, but captain or overseer of the temple. In this capacity, he had power to arrest and put in prison the false prophets, and those who caused any disturbance in the temple. This appears from what Shemaiah afterwards is said to have written to Zephaniah, the son of Maaseiah, who had the same post under king Zedekiah, as Pashur, chap. Jer 29:25-27 namely, that the Lord had appointed him head or overseer of his house, in the place of Jehoiada, that he might arrest and imprison all who reigned themselves to be men inspired, and prophets. Under the reign of Josiah, Hilkiah exercised the high-priesthood; [2 Kings 22:4](/kjv/2-kings/22/4); [2 Kings 22:8](/kjv/2-kings/22/8); 2Ki 22:10; [2 Kings 23:4](/kjv/2-kings/23/4); [2 Kings 23:24](/kjv/2-kings/23/24). 2Ch 24:14 so that Pashur was not high-priest. In the temple, as in the palace of a great prime, there were the same officers, the same order, the same service in proportion, as was observed in the court of the kings of Judah. The overseer of the temple is the same with those who are so often called *chief-priests*in the Gospel. [Matthew 26:47](/kjv/matthew/26/47); [Matthew 26:75](/kjv/matthew/26/75).[Luke 22:4](/kjv/luke/22/4); [Luke 22:4](/kjv/luke/22/4); [Luke 22:71](/kjv/luke/22/71). This chapter is a continuation of the foregoing. Pashur thought that Jeremiah's discourse, which spoke too plainly of the overthrow of Jerusalem, and of the miseries which should befal it, deserved that he should be arrested and put in irons, to hinder him from speaking thus freely; and accordingly he treats him as they treated the false prophets. 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