Pashur Beats Jeremiah and Receives a New Name

Pashur beats the prophet and locks him in the Benjamin gate stocks

Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things. Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD. And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks.

Prophetic conflict does not excuse abuse by officials. A temple governor's violence is recorded as violence. Religious office is not a permit to strike a speaker.

A new name, Magor-missabib, and Babylonian death in exile are announced

Then said Jeremiah unto him, The LORD hath not called thy name Pashur, but Magormissabib. For thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword. Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon. And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

Religious speakers do not gain power to threaten critics without testing and accountability. The name Terror-on-every-side and the Babylon sentence are this book's word against a lying official, not a template for cursing opponents. Friends who heard his lies share the announced exile; that is the oracle, not your feud.