Jeremiah 20:5

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Jeremiah 20:1-6

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 should have patronized. He was the son of Immer; that is, he was of the sixteenth course of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 20:5

Moreover, I will deliver all the strength of this city ,.... The fortifications of it; its towers, as the Syriac version; the riches of it, as the Targum; all its magazines and stores, in which its strength lay: and all the labours thereof ; all the fruit of their labours; all their wealth and riches got by labour; all their goods in trade; all their manufactures and merchandise: and all the precious things thereof ; all their plate and jewels, the rich furniture of their houses, and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Jeremiah 20:5

Verse 5 He goes on with the same subject, but amplifies what he had said in order to confirm it. At the same time there is no doubt but that Pashur was more exasperated when he heard these grievous threatenings; but it was right thus to inflame more and more the fury of all the ungodly. Though, then, they may a hundred times raise a clamor, we must not desist from freely and boldly declaring the truth. This is the reason why the Prophet now more fully describes the future calamity of the city. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 20:1-6

Pashur. At length the smoldering opposition to Jeremiah breaks out into open persecution. Hitherto, though he has been answered by words ( Jeremiah 18:18 ) and threatened with violence, no overt act has been committed. Secret enemies have elaborated dark designs, which are alarming enough but come to no serious issue. But now violent hands are laid upon the prophet; and it is not an obscure band of illegal conspirators who contrive evil against him, but the official head of the temple... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 20:1-6

A changed name and a dreadful doom. The change here, from Pashur to Magor-Missabib, reminds us of other divinely indicated changes of name in Scripture; e.g. from Abram to Abraham, from Jacob to Israel, from Simon to Peter, from Zacharias to John. These changes, however, were indicative of advancement and honor; were suggestive of the rise out of nature into grace. But here is a name which becomes at once the memorial of great wickedness and of the sure judgment following upon it. I. ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 20:3-6

Magor-Missabib; or, the fate of a false prophet. The person hero mentioned cannot with certainty be identified. He will the better serve as a type and representative of his kind. There is no age or country that has not had its Pashur. I. THE INFLUENCE HE EXERCISED . 1. Its character . Absolute and despotic. At the suggestion of his own evil heart. Capable of destroying civil rights and character itself. The whole civil and sacred machinery of the laud was at his... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Jeremiah 20:5

The strength ; rather, the stores. The labors ; rather, the fruits of labor ; i.e. the profits. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Jeremiah 20:5

All the strength - “All the stores.”The labors - The gains of the citizens. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Jeremiah 20:3-5

Jeremiah 20:3-5. Jeremiah said, The Lord hath not called Rather, doth not call thy name Pashur; but Magor-missabib That is, Terror on every side, or, Terror to all around, as the name is explained in the next verse. God’s giving him this name: signifies his changing the circumstances or condition of the person so named, agreeably to the meaning of the name given him, or that he would render him such as he called him. So when God called Abram by the new name of Abraham, he assigns... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Jeremiah 20:1-6

The broken pot (19:1-20:6)In another acted parable Jeremiah, carrying an earthenware pot in his hand, took the leaders of Jerusalem to a place outside the city walls where old pottery was dumped. This was in the valley where the Judeans once sacrificed their children to Molech and carried out other pagan rites (19:1-2; see 7:30-34 and section, ‘Tophet and the Valley of Hinnom’).Through their leaders, the people of Judah are told that in this valley, where they have killed their children, they... read more

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