Pashur in Biblical History

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Who is Pashur?
PASH'UR
(freedom). 1. The son of Malchijah, and founder of a family of priests, 1 Chr 9:12; 1 Chr 24:9; Neh 11:12, which seems to have returned with Zerubbabel, and which, in the time of Nehemiah, was one of the chief houses, its head being the head of a course. Ezr 2:38; Neh 7:41; Neh 10:3. Sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire about the issue of Nebuchadnezzar's preparations against Jerusalem, Pashur received a sombre warning, Jer 21; but when later on the siege of Jerusalem was raised by the advance of the Egyptian army, Pashur, together with other prominent men, demanded of Zedekiah that Jeremiah should be put to death as a traitor, and the prophet was actually cast into the dungeon or well where was mire. Jer 38. 2. The son of Immer, also a priest, and chief governor in the house of the Lord. Jer 20:1. In the reign of Jehoiakim he caused Jeremiah to be put in the stocks because he prophesied evil against Jerusalem; but the prophet pronounced a fearful sentence against him, Jer 20:1-6, and his name was changed to Magor-missabib, which see.

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