The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
Parallel translations
- WEB On the next day, Pashhur released Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “Yahweh has not called your name Pashhur, but Magormissabib.
- KJV And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib.
- NKJV And it happened on the next day that Pashhur brought Jeremiah out of the stocks. Then Jeremiah said to him, “The Lord has not called your name Pashhur, but Magor-Missabib.
- NASB Then on the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the Lord has called you, but rather Magor-missabib.
- NLT The next day, when Pashhur finally released him, Jeremiah said, “Pashhur, the Lord has changed your name. From now on you are to be called ‘The Man Who Lives in Terror.’
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Quick answer
When released, Jeremiah renames Pashhur Terror on every side, announcing judgment. God's word stands despite the prophet's mistreatment.
Overview
Far from silenced, Jeremiah declares that God has renamed Pashhur Magor-missabib, meaning terror on every side. The new name embodies the doom about to fall on him. The episode shows that opposing God's messenger does not nullify God's word but invites the very judgment one tries to suppress.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 20:10For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friends watch for my fall: “Perhaps he will be deceived so that we may prevail against him and take our vengeance upon him.”
- Ps 31:13For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
- Jer 46:5Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without looking back; terror is on every side!” declares the LORD.
- Lam 2:22You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.
- Jer 6:25Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
- Isa 8:3And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
- Gen 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Acts 4:5–7The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
- Hos 1:4–9Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, and I will put an end to the kingdom of Israel.
- Gen 17:15Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
- Acts 16:35–39When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”
- Jer 19:2and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
- Jer 19:6So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter.
- Jer 29:29(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
- Jer 7:32So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
- Gen 17:5No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
- Acts 16:30Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
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