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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Jeremiah 20:1 - 20:1
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Jer 20:1-18. Jeremiah’s incarceration by Pashur, the principal officer of the Temple, for prophesying within its precincts; His renewed predictions against the city, etc., On his liberation.
son - descendant.
of Immer - one of the original “governors of the sanctuary and of the house of God,” twenty-four in all, that is, sixteen of the sons of Eleazar and eight of the sons of Ithamar (1Ch 24:14). This Pashur is distinct from Pashur, son of Melchiah (Jer 21:1). The “captains” (Luk 22:4) seem to have been over the twenty-four guards of the temple, and had only the right of apprehending any who were guilty of delinquency within it; but the Sanhedrim had the judicial power over such delinquents [Grotius] (Jer 26:8, Jer 26:10, Jer 26:16).