Pashur or Pashhur () was the name of at least two priests contemporary with the Biblical prophet Jeremiah and who are mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.[Wilhelm Spiegelberg (1899), referenced in The Interpreter's Bible, Volume V, p. 970]
Pashur ben Immer
Pashhur the son of Immer (possibly the same as
Amariah, Nehemiah ; ), was deputy chief priest (
[ Greek Text Analysis: Jeremiah 20:1. Biblehub]) of the
temple (, ). (At this time, the
nagid "governor" of the temple would have been
Seraiah - 1 Chronicles ). Enraged at the plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of coming judgements because of the abounding iniquity of the times, "Pashhur thereupon had Jeremiah flogged and put in the cell at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the House of GOD." in . Upon being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashhur and announced, "
YHWH has named you not Pashhur, but Magor-missabib," i.e., "terror on every side", and that he would be later carried captive to
Babylon and die there ().
Pashur ben Malchiah
Pashhur, the son of
Malchiah, was another priest who was sent by King
Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of the
YHWH regarding the impending attack of Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in . In –, Pashhur was also one of four men who advised Zedekiah to put Jeremiah to death for his prophecies of doom but who ended up throwing him into a
cistern.
Gedaliah ben Pashur
Pashhur, the father of Gedaliah in is possibly the same Pashhur. Gedaliah was another of the four men who threw Jeremiah into the cistern.
Historicity
The pottery shards of the
Tel Arad ostraca unearthed in the 1970s written in Paleo-Hebrew mention a Pashhur.
