Pashhur

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Pashur (1.) The son of Immer (possibly the same as Amariah, Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was "chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning "deputy governor"] of the temple" (Jer. 20:1, 2). At this time the nagid, or "governor," of the temple was Seraiah the high priest (1 Chr. 6:14), and Pashur was his paqid, or "deputy." Apparently enraged at the plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of coming judgements because of the abounding iniquity of the times, Pashur "smote Jeremiah the prophet" (this could mean that he ordered the temple police to seize him and inflict the corporal punishment of up to forty stripes found in Deut. 25:3), then he placed him in the stocks in the high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night.

Upon being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur (Jer. 20:3, 5), and announced to him that God had changed his name to Magor-missabib, i.e., "terror on every side." He was later carried captive to Babylon, and died there.

(2.) A priest who was the son of Malchiah, and who was sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord regarding the impending attack of king Nebuchadnezzar II. (Jer. 21:1).

(3.) The father of Gedaliah (Jer. 38:1-6). He was probably the same as (1).