Thematic Bible: In stocks


Thematic Bible



“You put my feet in the stocks
And watch all my paths;
You set a limit for the soles of my feet,

Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,

On the next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “Pashhur is not the name the Lord has called you, but rather Magor-missabib.

“The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the overseer in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar,

and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.


Suddenly he follows her
As an ox goes to the slaughter,
Or as one in fetters to the discipline of a fool,

“The Lord has made you priest instead of Jehoiada the priest, to be the overseer in the house of the Lord over every madman who prophesies, to put him in the stocks and in the iron collar,

and he, having received such a command, threw them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.