Jeremiah 20:2 (KJV)

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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

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smote. Jer 1:19 Jer 19:14 Jer 19:15 Jer 26:8 Jer 29:26 Jer 36:26 Jer 37:15 Jer 37:16 Jer 38:6 1Ki 22:27 2Ch 16:10 2Ch 24:21 Am 7:10-13 Mt 5:10-12 Mt 21:35 Mt 23:34-37 Ac 4:3 Ac 5:18 Ac 5:40 Ac 7:52 Ac 16:22-24 Heb 11:36 Heb 11:37 Re 2:10 Re 17:6

in the high. Jer 37:13 Jer 38:7 Zec 14:10

the stocks.{Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, (De 29:22. Isa 1:7; 10:19,) and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which the limbs were distorted into uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, {keephtha} and Jerome, {nervus,} which he explains in his comment as "a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, {vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur.} Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious.

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