Jeremiah 20:2

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2 H6583 Then Pashur H5221 [H8686] struck H3414 Jeremiah H5030 the prophet, H5414 [H8799] and put H4115 him in the stocks H5945 that were in the high H8179 gate H1144 of Benjamin, H1004 which was by the house H3068 of the LORD.

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Jeremiah 1:19; Jeremiah 19:14; Jeremiah 19:15; Jeremiah 26:8; Jeremiah 29:26; Jeremiah 36:26; Jeremiah 37:15; Jeremiah 37:16; Jeremiah 38:6; 1 Kings 22:27
2 Chronicles 16:10; 2 Chronicles 24:21; Amos 7:10-13; Matthew 5:10-12; Matthew 21:35; Matthew 23:34-37; Acts 4:3
Acts 5:18; Acts 5:40; Acts 7:52; Acts 16:22-24; Hebrews 11:36; Hebrews 11:37; Revelation 2:10; Revelation 17:6
the stocks.{Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, (De 29:22. Isa 1:7; 10:19,) and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which the limbs were distorted into uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, {keephtha} and Jerome, {nervus,} which he explains in his comment as "a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, {vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur.} Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious.
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Jeremiah 37:13; Jeremiah 38:7; Zechariah 14:10