20:1,2
Jeremiah encounters more opposition, and of a violent type. Pashur was a priest and he was in charge of the temple of the Lord. Since Jeremiah was prophesying the destruction of the temple, among other things, he probably felt that he was on safe ground in opposing Jeremiah. There are, of course, some similarities to the priest opposing Jesus on the grounds of Jesus talking about tearing down the temple. Pashur had Jeremiah beaten and then put in the stocks. This is the first reference to “Jeremiah the Prophet” in this book, stressing the enormity of what the priest was doing.
20:3,4
The next day Pashur had Jeremiah released. It isn’t clear what he had hoped to gain from his short term confinement of Jeremiah, maybe just to “teach him a lesson”. However, Jeremiah had a lesson for Pashur, saying his name would be “terror on every side”. He would see the destruction of the whole of Judah and the people being carried off to exile. The only way to escape the word of the Lord is to repent.
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