Jer 20:2

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smote.

Jer 1:19; Jer 19:14; Jer 19:15; Jer 26:8; Jer 29:26; Jer 36:26; Jer 37:15; Jer 37:16; Jer 38:6; 1Kgs 22:27

2Chr 16:10; 2Chr 24:21; Amos 7:10-13; Matt 5:10-12; Matt 21:35; Matt 23:34-37; Acts 4:3

Acts 5:18; Acts 5:40; Acts 7:52; Acts 16:22-24; Heb 11:36; Heb 11:37; Rev 2:10; Rev 17:6

the stocks.

{Hammahpecheth,} from {haphach,} "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow, (Deut 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.

in the high.

Jer 37:13; Jer 38:7; Zech 14:10