The son of Immer; a deadly foe to the church. His name is derived from Pashah, to spread; but from his enmity to the people of God while governor in the land, and his cruelty upon the person of the prophet Jeremiah, the prophet called him Magor - missabib, which the margin of the Bible renders fear round about. (See Jer. xx. 1 - 6.) I pause over the name and character of this man just to remark the blessedness of all times in the church, when the Lord is pleased to give to his exercised people precious testimonies to histruthover and above the grace he manifests to their own hearts. Though, as Asaph saith, apparently the way of the wicked prospereth to outward view, yet to inward feelings they are total strangers to any good; and who shall take upon them to say what sorrows fill their minds? There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked." (Isa. l7: 21.) When the Lord’s people therefore hear of such characters, or behold them in their own neighbourhood, (and they are to be found in every place) and observe in the midst of muchoutsideappearances of gaiety, that they are like so many Pashur Magor - missabibs in themselves, surely a voice from every parish steeple where they dwell could not more loudly testify to the truths of God! I would recommend the reader, at any time, when at a loss to explain what he beholds of the prosperity of the wicked and the adversity of the Lord’s exercised family, to read what Asaph, taught by the Holy Ghost, hath said, Ps. l23, throughout; and if he adds to Asaph’s observations what the man of Uz hath said onthe same subject, he will find both profitable. (Job xxi. 7 - 13.) Moses also, the man of God, hath left upon record the portrait of the inward terrors of the haunted mind. (Deut. 28. 65 - 67.)
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 (Jer 20:1-6).
Pashur, 2
Pashur, son of Melchiah, a high officer of King Zedekiah, and one of those at whose instance Jeremiah was cast into prison (Jer 21:1; Jer 38:1-6). A descendant of his is mentioned among the new colonists of Jerusalem after the captivity (Neh 11:12).
1. The son of Immer, a priest and a chief officer in the temple; he violently opposed the prophet Jeremiah, and persecuted him even with blows and confinement in the stocks; but all recoiled on his own head, Jer 20:1-6 .\par 2. The son of Malchiah, an enemy of Jeremiah, and active in securing his imprisonment, Jer 21:1 ; 38:1-6. Many descendants of this Pashur returned from captivity at Babylon, 1Ch 9:12 ; Ezr 2:38 .\par
Pash’ur. (freedom).
1. One of the families of priests, of the chief house of Malchijah. 1Ch 9:12; 1Ch 24:9; Neh 11:12; Jer 21:1; Jer 38:1. In the time of Nehemiah, this family appears to have become a chief house, and its head, the head of a course. Ezr 2:38; Neh 7:41; Neh 10:3.
The individual from whom the family was named was, probably, Pushur, the son of Malchiah, who in the reign of Zedekiah was one of the chief princes of the court. Jer 38:1. (B.C. 607). He was sent, with others, by Zedekiah to Jeremiah, at the time when Nebuchudnezzar was preparing his attack upon Jerusalem. Jer 21:1. Again, somewhat later, Pashur joined with several other chief men in petitioning the king, that Jeremiah might be put to death as a traitor. Jer 38:4.
2. Another person of this name, also a priest, and "chief governor of the house of the Lord," is mentioned in Jer 20:1. He is described as "the son of Immer," 1Ch 24:14, probably, the same as Amariah, 6. Neh 10:3; Neh 12:2; etc.
In the reign of Jehoiakim, he showed himself as hostile to Jeremiah as his namesake, the son of Malchiah, did afterward, and put him in the stocks, by the gate of Benjamin. For this indignity to God’s prophet, Pashur was told by Jeremiah, that his name was changed to Magor-missabib, (terror on every side), and that he, and all his house should be carried captives to Babylon, and there die. Jer 20:1-6. (B.C. 589).
("prosperity everywhere") (Gesenius).
1. Jer 20:1-6. A priest, Immer’s son, of the 16th order (1Ch 9:12), "chief governor in the house of the Lord." There were 24 in all: 16 of Eleazar’s sons, eight of Ithamar’s, answering (Luk 22:4) to the captains of the temple (1Ch 24:14). Smote and put in the stocks Jeremiah for foretelling Jerusalem’s desolation. On the following day Jeremiah, when brought out of the stocks, foretold that he should be not Pashur but Magor-Missabib, a terror to himself and his friends; he and all in his house, and all his friends to whom he had "prophesied lies" (Jer 5:31; Jer 18:18), should go into captivity and die in Babylon.
2. Jer 21:1; Jer 21:9; Jer 38:1-2; Jer 38:6; 1Ch 24:9; 1Ch 24:14; Neh 11:12.
3. Jer 38:1.
[Pa’shur]
1. Son of Malchijah, a priest, and ancestor of some who returned from exile. 1Ch 9:12; Ezr 2:38; Ezr 10:22; Neh 7:41; Neh 11:12. Perhaps the same as No. 4.
2. Priest who sealed the covenant. Neh 10:3.
3. Son of Immer, ’chief governor in the house of the Lord.’ He struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. Jeremiah said to him that the Lord had called his name MAGOR-MISSABIB, ’fear round about’ margin . The Lord would make him a terror to himself and all his friends; and they should fall by the sword. He should be carried into captivity and die there. Jer 20:1-6.
4. Son of Melchiah or Malchiah: he with others advised Zedekiah to put Jeremiah to death. Jer 21:1; Jer 38:1.
5. Father of Gedaliah. Jer 38:1.
By: Emil G. Hirsch, Schulim Ochser
1. Son of Immer the priest. He attacked Jeremiah on account of his prophecies of calamity and put him in the stocks, for which Jeremiah predicted Pashur's captivity and death in Babylon (Jer. xx. 1-3).
2. Son of Melchiah. He was sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire regarding the result of the siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. xxi. 1). He was also chief governor of the Temple, and caused the imprisonment of Jeremiah in punishment for a prophecy advising the people to submit to the Chaldeans (Jer. xxxviii. 1-13). His grandson Adaiah is mentioned as one of those priests who, after their return, took strange wives (I Chron. ix. 12), and as one who was active at the construction of the Second Temple (Neh. xi. 12).