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Pashur

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature

Pashur, 1

Pash´ur, son of Immer, a priest, and chief overseer of the Temple, who smote Jeremiah and put him in the stocks for his prophecies of captivity and ruin; on which the prophet was commissioned to declare that he should be one of those to go into exile, and that he and all his friends should die in Babylon, and be buried there ().

Pashur, 2

Pashur, son of Melchiah, a high officer of King Zedekiah, and one of those at whose instance Jeremiah was cast into prison (; ). A descendant of his is mentioned among the new colonists of Jerusalem after the captivity ().

 

 

 

 

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Kitto, John, ed. Entry for 'Pashur'. "Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature". https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​kbe/​p/pashur.html.