pashur

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pashur - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :

  Pashur
  release. (1.) The son of Immer (probably the same as Amariah,
  Neh. 10:3; 12:2), the head of one of the priestly courses, was
  "chief governor [Heb. paqid nagid, meaning "deputy governor"] of
  the temple" (Jer. 20:1, 2). At this time the _nagid_, or
  "governor," of the temple was Seraiah the high priest (1 Chr.
  6:14), and Pashur was his _paqid_, or "deputy." Enraged at the
  plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of
  coming judgements, because of the abounding iniquity of the
  times, Pashur ordered the temple police to seize him, and after
  inflicting on him corporal punishment (forty stripes save one,
  Deut. 25:3; comp. 2 Cor. 11:24), to put him in the stocks in the
  high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night. On being set
  free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur (Jer. 20:3, 5), and
  announced to him that God had changed his name to
  Magor-missabib, i.e., "terror on every side." The punishment
  that fell upon him was probably remorse, when he saw the ruin he
  had brought upon his country by advising a close alliance with
  Egypt in opposition to the counsels of Jeremiah (20:4-6). He was
  carried captive to Babylon, and died there.
  
    (2.) A priest sent by king Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of
  the Lord (1 Chr. 24:9; Jer. 21:1; 38:1-6). He advised that the
  prophet should be put to death.
  
    (3.) The father of Gedaliah. He was probably the same as (1).