Thematic Bible: Stocks


Thematic Bible



My people consult their wooden idol, and their diviner’s wand informs them;
For a spirit of harlotry has led them astray,
And they have played the harlot, departing from their God.

Because of the lightness of her harlotry, she polluted the land and committed adultery with stones and trees.


Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of the Lord.

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


“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,

‘He puts my feet in the stocks;
He watches all my paths.’


Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of the Lord.

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