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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Pashur (Levite living at the time of Exile and Return)
His name heads a family that came back from exile, counted in Ezra 2:38 and Nehemiah 7:41. He is not the temple official who had Jeremiah beaten; that man has his own entry.
First, in plain English
His name heads a family that came back from exile, counted in Ezra 2:38 and Nehemiah 7:41. He is not the temple official who had Jeremiah beaten; that man has his own entry.
Who this is
Pashur was a temple official who had the prophet Jeremiah beaten and put in stocks overnight for his prophecies of coming judgment, and Jeremiah responded the next day by renaming him Magor-missabib, meaning terror on every side, and predicting Pashur would die in exile in Babylon.
study-bible (ACAI + Tyndale)
The word
H6583
Where it appears
- 1 Chronicles 9:12
- Ezra 2:38
- Ezra 10:22
- Nehemiah 7:41
- Nehemiah 11:12
