Pashhur, son of Immer, was a priest and chief overseer in the Lord's temple in Jerusalem. He is best known for beating the prophet Jeremiah and putting him in stocks after Jeremiah prophesied about the destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah gave him the symbolic name Magor-Missabib, which means 'terror on every side,' as a sign of the coming judgment.
When Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, the prophet gave him the name Magor-Missabib ('terror on every side') and prophesied that he and all his friends would be taken into captivity to Babylon.
3The next morning, when Pashhur released him from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him: "The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Terror on Every Side." [footnote: Hebrew Magor-Missabib, 'Terror on Every Side'; the same phrase recurs in verse 10.]
4For this is what the LORD says: I am making you a terror to yourself and to all who love you. They will fall by the sword of their enemies while your own eyes look on. All Judah I will hand over to the king of Babylon, who will carry them off to Babylon and strike them down with the sword.
5I will hand over all the wealth of this city, all its earnings, all its treasures, and all the riches of the kings of Judah to their enemies. They will plunder them, seize them, and carry them off to Babylon.
6And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house will go into exile. You will go to Babylon, and there you will die, and there you will be buried—you and all who love you, to whom you prophesied lies."
11and say to them: This is what the LORD of hosts says: So will I break this people and this city, as one breaks a potter's vessel that can never be mended again. They will bury the dead in Topheth for lack of any other place to bury.
14Then Jeremiah came back from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the court of the LORD's house and said to all the people:
15This is what the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am bringing on this city and on all its surrounding towns every disaster I pronounced against it, because they stiffened their necks and refused to listen to my words.
Pashhur, son of Malkijah, was sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to ask for the Lord's will when Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem. This is another person with the same name.
1The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchiah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, with this message:
2"Please inquire of the LORD on our behalf, for Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon is making war against us. Perhaps the LORD will deal with us according to all his wonders, and Nebuchadnezzar will withdraw from us."
Pashhur son of Malkijah in the council against Jeremiah
Pashhur, son of Malkijah, was among the leaders who wanted to kill Jeremiah because his prophecies demoralized the soldiers and the people during the Babylonian siege.
1Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchiah heard the words Jeremiah was speaking to all the people:
2"This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by the sword, by famine, or by plague, but whoever goes out to the Chaldeans will live; he will escape with his life and survive.
4So the officials said to the king, "This man must be put to death. By speaking such words to them he is undermining the courage of the soldiers who are left in this city and of all the people. This man is not seeking the welfare of this people, but their ruin."