Jeremiah Put in the Stocks for his Preaching

14 Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth to which Jehovah had sent him on his prophetic errand; and, taking his stand in the Temple court he thus addressed the assembled people: 15 "Thus saith Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel, Mark this well; soon I will bring upon this city and upon all her villages the full measure of disaster with which I have threatened her, because they have stiffened their necks and refused to listen to My words."

20 Now when Pashhur, the son of Immer the priest, who had the general supervision of the Temple, heard this prophetic utterance of Jeremiah’s, 2 he beat him and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin gate in the Temple. 3 Next day, after Pashhur had released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, "Thy name is (henceforth) changed from Pashhur to Terror. 4 For thus saith Jehovah: See! I will make thee a terror to thyself and to all thy friends. They shall fall by the enemy’s sword, and thou shalt see it with thine own eyes. I will give the whole of Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them to exile in Babylon and slay them with the sword. 5 And all the resources of this city, all her wealth, all that she prizes, all the treasures of the kings of Judah, I will deliver into the hands of their enemies, who shall despoil them and carry them off to Babylon. 6 As for thee, Pashhur, thou and all who share thy home shall be swept into captivity. To Babylon thou shalt come; there thou shalt die, and there shalt thou be buried – thou and all the friends to whom thou hast prophesied lies."