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Jer. 20:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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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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Jer. 1:19• ¹⁹And they shall fight against thee, but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee. (Jer. 1:19)

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Jer. 19:14‑15• ¹⁴And Jeremiah came from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah's house, and said to all the people,
¹⁵Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her cities all the evil that I have spoken against it; for they have hardened their necks, not to hear my words. (Jer. 19:14‑15)

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Jer. 26:8• ⁸And it came to pass when Jeremiah had ended speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people seized him, saying, Thou shalt certainly die. (Jer. 26:8)

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Jer. 29:26• ²⁶Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there should be officers in the house of Jehovah, over every madman and self-made prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in the shackles. (Jer. 29:26)

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Jer. 36:26• ²⁶And the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet; but Jehovah hid them. (Jer. 36:26)

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Jer. 37:15‑16• ¹⁵And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in the place of confinement in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
¹⁶When Jeremiah was come into the dungeon and into the vaults, and Jeremiah had remained there many days, (Jer. 37:15‑16)

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Jer. 38:6• ⁶Then they took Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the son of Hammelech, which was in the court of the guard, and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire. (Jer. 38:6)

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1 Kings 22:27• ²⁷and thou shalt say, Thus says the king: Put this man in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace. (1 Kings 22:27)

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2 Chron. 16:10• ¹⁰And Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in the prison; for he was enraged with him because of this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at the same time. (2 Chron. 16:10)

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2 Chron. 24:21• ²¹And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the command of the king in the court of the house of Jehovah. (2 Chron. 24:21)

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Amos 7:10‑13• ¹⁰Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.
¹¹For thus Amos saith: Jeroboam shall die by the sword, and Israel shall certainly go into captivity out of his land.
¹²And Amaziah said unto Amos, Thou seer, go, flee away into the land of Judah, and eat bread there, and prophesy there.
¹³But prophesy not again any more at Bethel; for it is the king's sanctuary, and it is the house of the kingdom. (Amos 7:10‑13)

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Matt. 5:10‑12• ¹⁰Blessed they who are persecuted on account of righteousness, for *theirs* is the kingdom of the heavens.
¹¹Blessed are ye when they may reproach and persecute you, and say every wicked thing against you, lying, for my sake.
¹²Rejoice and exult, for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus have they persecuted the prophets who were before you. (Matt. 5:10‑12)

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Matt. 21:35• ³⁵And the husbandmen took his bondmen, and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. (Matt. 21:35)

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Matt. 23:34‑37• ³⁴Therefore, behold, *I* send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will persecute from city to city;
³⁵so that all righteous blood shed upon the earth should come upon *you*, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.
³⁶Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.
³⁷Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those that are sent unto her, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! (Matt. 23:34‑37)

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Acts 4:3• ³and they laid hands on them, and put them in ward till the morrow; for it was already evening. (Acts 4:3)

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Acts 5:18,40• ¹⁸and laid hands on the apostles and put them in the public prison.
⁴⁰And they listened to his advice; and having called the apostles, they beat them, and enjoined them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and dismissed them. (Acts 5:18,40)

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Acts 7:52• ⁵²Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain those who announced beforehand concerning the coming of the Just One, of whom *ye* have now become deliverers up and murderers! (Acts 7:52)

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Acts 16:22‑24• ²²And the crowd rose up too against them; and the praetors, having torn off their clothes, commanded to scourge them.
²³And having laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely;
²⁴who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks. (Acts 16:22‑24)

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Heb. 11:36‑37• ³⁶and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, and of bonds and imprisonment.
³⁷They were stoned, were sawn asunder, were tempted, died by the death of the sword; they went about in sheepskins, in goatskins, destitute, afflicted, evil treated, (Heb. 11:36‑37)

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Rev. 2:10• ¹⁰Fear nothing of what thou art about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give to thee the crown of life. (Rev. 2:10)

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Rev. 17:6• ⁶And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the witnesses of Jesus. And I wondered, seeing her, with great wonder. (Rev. 17:6)

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.in the high.

Jer. 37:13• ¹³And when he was in the gate of Benjamin, a captain of the guard was there whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he laid hold on the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Thou art deserting to the Chaldeans. (Jer. 37:13)

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Jer. 38:7• ⁷And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon--now the king was sitting in the gate of Benjamin, (Jer. 38:7)

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Zech. 14:10• ¹⁰All the land from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem shall be turned as the Arabah; and Jerusalem shall be lifted up, and shall dwell in her own place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner-gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. (Zech. 14:10)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.