Jeremiah 20:1
Good News Translation
When the priest Pashhur son of Immer, who was the chief officer of the Temple, heard me proclaim these things,

New Revised Standard Version
Now the priest Pashhur son of Immer, who was chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

Contemporary English Version
Pashhur son of Immer was a priest and the chief of temple security. He heard what I had said,

New American Bible
Now the priest Pashhur, son of Immer, chief officer in the house of the LORD, heard Jeremiah prophesying these things.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now Phassur the son of Emmer, the priest, who was appointed chief in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now Phassur the son of Emmer, the priest, who was appointed chief in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words.

Immer.

1 Chronicles 24:14 The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer,

Ezra 2:37,38 The children of Emmer, a thousand fifty-two. . . .

Nehemiah 7:40,41 The children of Emmer, one thousand fifty-two. . . .

chief.

2 Kings 25:18 And the general of the army took Seraias, the chief priest, and Sophonias, the second priest, and three doorkeepers:

2 Chronicles 35:8 And his princes willingly offered what they had vowed, both to the people and to the priests and the Levites. Moreover Helcias, and Zacharias, and Jahiel rulers of the house of the Lord, gave to the priests to keep the phase two thousand six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.

Acts 4:1 And as they were speaking to the people the priests and the officer of the temple and the Sadducees came upon them,

Acts 5:24 Now when the officer of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were in doubt concerning them, what would come to pass.

Context
Pashhur Persecutes Jeremiah
1Now Phassur the son of Emmer, the priest, who was appointed chief in the house of the Lord, heard Jeremiah prophesying these words.2And Phassur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks, that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, in the house of the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Kings 25:18
And the general of the army took Seraias, the chief priest, and Sophonias, the second priest, and three doorkeepers:

1 Chronicles 9:11
And Azarias the son of Helcias, the son of Mosollam, the son of Sadoc, the son of Maraioth, the son of Achitob, high priest of the house of God.

1 Chronicles 24:14
The fifteenth to Belga, the sixteenth to Emmer,

Ezra 2:37
The children of Emmer, a thousand fifty-two.

Ezra 2:38
The children of Pheshur, a thousand two hundred forty-seven.

Jeremiah 20:6
But thou Phassur, and all that dwell in thy house, shall go into captivity, and thou shalt go to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and there thou shalt be buried, thou and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied a lie.

Jeremiah 29:26
The Lord hath made thee priest instead of Joiada the priest, that thou shouldst be ruler in the house of the Lord, over every man that raveth and prophesieth, to put him in the stocks, and into prison.

Jeremiah 37:15
So Jeremiah went into the house of the prison, and into the dungeon: and Jeremiah remained there many days.

Jeremiah 19:15
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