Pashur
Bible Dictionary and Concordance:
Top
Pashhur, Pashur
1. The son of Malchijah and father of Jeroham (I Chr 9:12). He was sent by King Zedekiah together with Zephaniah to seek an oracle from the prophet Jeremiah when the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar attacked Jerusalem (Jer 21:1-2). Jeremiah foretold that Jerusalem would fall to the Babylonian king and that whoever remained in the city would die by the sword, famine and pestilence (Jer 38:2-3).
2. The ancestor of a priestly family which returned to Judah after the Babylonian Exile.
3. The son of Immer the priest. He was chief governor in the Jerusalem Temple (Jer 20:1). Upon hearing Jeremiah's prophecy, which foretold evil for Jerusalem, Pashhur "struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks". Jeremiah thereupon pronounced his judgment upon Passhur and the nation (Jer 20:2-6).
4. The father of Gedaliah; the latter was in the delegation sent to Jeremiah during the time of King Zedekiah.
5. One of the priests who sealed the covenant written in the time of Ezra.
Concordance
PASHHUR, PASHUR 1:
I Chr 9:12. Jer 21:1; 38:1. Neh 11:12
PASHHUR, PASHUR 2:
Ezra 2:38; 10:22. Neh 7:41
PASHHUR, PASHUR 3:
Jer 20:1-3, 6
PASHHUR, PASHUR 4:
Jer 38:1
PASHHUR, PASHUR 5:
Neh 10:3
Pashur (pā'shər), in the Bible. 1 Official who mistreated Jeremiah. 2 Messenger to Jeremiah from the king. He is probably the ancestor of a post-Exilic priestly family.
Wikipedia on Answers.com:
Top
Pashur
Pashur or Pashhur was the name of at least two priests contemporary with the prophet Jeremiah and who are mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.
(1). Pashur the son of Immer (possibly the same as Amariah, Nehemiah 10:3; 12:2), was deputy chief priest [Heb. paqid nagid] of the temple (Jer. 20:1, 2). (At this time, the nagid, or "governor", of the temple would have been Seraiah - 1 Chronicles 6:14.) 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 Deuteronomy 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" and that he would be later carried captive to Babylon and die there.
(2). Pashur, the son of Malchiah, was another priest, who was sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord regarding the impending attack of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon (Jer. 21:1). In Jer. 38:1-6, this Pashur was also one of four men who advised Zedekiah to put Jeremiah to death for his prophecies of doom but who ended up throwing him into a cistern.
(3). Pashur the father of Gedaliah (Jer. 38:1), possibly the same Pashur as (1) above. Gedaliah was another of the four men who threw Jeremiah into the cistern.
This article incorporates text from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), a publication now in the public domain.
This entry is from Wikipedia, the leading user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors (see full disclaimer)
Post a question - any question - to the WikiAnswers community:
Copyrights:
Bible Dictionary and Concordance
Illustrated Dictionary & Concordance of the Bible. Copyright © 1986 by G.G. The Jerusalem Publishing House, Ltd. All rights reserved.
Read more
Columbia Encyclopedia
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. Licensed from Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. www.cc.columbia.edu/cu/cup/.
Read more
