Jeremiah 20
Jeremiah 20 is the twentieth chapter of the Book of Jeremiah in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. This book contains prophecies attributed to the prophet Jeremiah, and is one of the Books of the Prophets. This chapter includes the fifth of the passages known as the "Confessions of Jeremiah".
Text
The original text was written in the Hebrew language. This chapter is divided into 18 verses.Textual witnesses
Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter in Hebrew are of the Masoretic Text tradition, which includes the Codex Cairensis, the Petersburg Codex of the Prophets, Aleppo Codex, Codex Leningradensis. Some fragments containing parts of this chapter were found among the Dead Sea Scrolls, i.e., 4QJera with extant verses 14‑18, and 4QJerc with extant verses 2‑9, 13‑15.There is also a translation into Koine Greek known as the Septuagint, made in the last few centuries BCE. Extant ancient manuscripts of the Septuagint version include Codex Vaticanus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Alexandrinus and Codex Marchalianus.
Parashot
The parashah sections listed here are based on the Aleppo Codex. Jeremiah 20 is a part of the Seventh prophecy in the section of Prophecies of Destruction . : open parashah; : closed parashah.Altercation with Pashhur (20:1–6)
Verse 1
- "Pashhur, the son of Immer", leader of the "Temple police", publicly struck Jeremiah, earning a prophecy of doom with the new name "". Pottery shards with the name Pashhur written on it were unearthed at Tel Arad in the 1970s, and this so-called "Tel Arad Ostraca" may refer to the same individual mentioned in this verse.
- "Chief governor" : or "deputy governor", that is, a person overseeing "the temple, temple guards, entry into the court and so on" and must be a priest. The nagid, or "governor", of the temple was the high priest, the office held at that time by Seraiah the high priest, the grandson of Hilkiah, and Pashhur was his paqid. Zephaniah held the office of paqid in, and his relation to the high priest is exactly defined.
Verse 2
The Jerusalem Bible treats Jeremiah's altercation with Passhur as part of the narrative of the broken jug in chapter 19.Verse 3
- "Magormisabib": transliterated from Hebrew: מגור מסביב, is a new name given to Pashhur, the son of Immer, after he struck Jeremiah the prophet, as prophecy that Pashhur would share the fate of Jerusalem's inhabitants who were taken into the exile.