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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• ¹⁴{i}And 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{/i},
¹⁵Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon this city and upon all her towns all the evil that I have pronounced against it, because they have hardened their necks, that they might not hear my words. (Jer. 19:14‑15)

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Jer. 26:8• ⁸Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that Jehovah had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die. (Jer. 26:8)

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Jer. 29:26• ²⁶Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of Jehovah, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks. (Jer. 29:26)

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Jer. 36:26• ²⁶But 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• ¹⁵Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.
¹⁶When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days; (Jer. 37:15‑16)

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Jer. 38:6• ⁶Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire. (Jer. 38:6)

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1 Kings 22:27• ²⁷{i}and 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.{/i} (1 Kings 22:27)

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2 Chron. 16:10• ¹⁰{i}And 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.{/i} (2 Chron. 16:10)

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2 Chron. 24:21• ²¹And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones, at the commandment of the king {i}in the court of the house of Jehovah.{/i} (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 surely be led away captive out of their own land.
¹²Also Amaziah said unto Amos, O thou seer, go, flee thee away into the land of Judah, and there eat bread, and prophesy there:
¹³but prophesy not again anymore at Bethel: for it is the king's chapel, and it is the king's court. (Amos 7:10‑13)

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Matt. 5:10‑12• ¹⁰Blessed they that have been persecuted for righteousness' sake; for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.
¹¹Blessed are ye when they shall reproach and persecute you, and falsely say every wicked word against you for my sake.
¹²Rejoice and exult; for your reward is great in the heavens; for thus persecuted they the prophets that were before you. (Matt. 5:10‑12)

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

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Matt. 23:34‑37• ³⁴{i}Therefore, 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;{/i}
³⁵{i}so 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.{/i}
³⁶{i}Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation.{/i}
³⁷{i}Jerusalem, 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!{/i} (Matt. 23:34‑37)

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

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Acts 5:18,40• ¹⁸and laid their hands on the apostles and put them in public ward.
⁴⁰And to him they yielded, and having called the apostles, they beat and charged [them] not to speak on the name of Jesus, and let them go. (Acts 5:18,40)

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Acts 7:52• ⁵²Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those that announced beforehand of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye became betrayers and murderers, (Acts 7:52)

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Acts 16:22‑24• ²²And the crowd rose up together against them; and the praetors rent their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods.
²³And having laid many stripes on 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 into the stocks. (Acts 16:22‑24)

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

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Rev. 2:10• ¹⁰Fear not the things which 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 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 when I saw her, I wondered 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 ward was there, whose name was Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah; and he took Jeremiah the prophet, saying, Thou fallest away to the Chaldeans. (Jer. 37:13)

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Jer. 38:7• ⁷Now when Ebed-Melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin; (Jer. 38:7)

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Zech. 14:10• ¹⁰All the land shall be turned as into a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and it shall be lifted up and inhabited in its place from Benjamin’s gate unto the place of the first gate up to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananeel unto the king’s wine-presses. (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.

W. Kelly 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.

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)