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1Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
Jeremiah 20:1 —
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Matthew Henry
(vv. 1-6)Here is, I. Pashur’s unjust displeasure against Jeremiah, and the fruits of that displeasure, Jer. 20:1 , 2 . This Pashur was a priest, and therefore, one would think, should have protected Jeremiah, who was of his own order, a priest too, and the more because he was a prophet of the Lord, whose interests the priests, his ministers, ought to consult. But this priest was a persecutor of him whom he...
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