Thematic Bible: Stocks


Thematic Bible




My people consult their [lifeless] wooden idol, and their [diviner’s] wand gives them oracles.
For a spirit of prostitution has led them astray [morally and spiritually],
And they have played the prostitute, withdrawing themselves from their God.
Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryIngratitudeSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfWoodHarlotsCausing People To TurnIdol Worshipwhores

Because of the thoughtlessness of Israel’s prostitution [her immorality mattered little to her], she desecrated the land and committed adultery with [idols of] stones and trees. Verse ConceptsWoodAnimismPolluting The LandWorship At TreesInfidelityadultry

Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate by the house of the Lord. Verse ConceptsFloggingGatesNamed Gates

He, having received such a [strict] command, threw them into the inner prison (dungeon) and fastened their feet in the stocks [in an agonizing position]. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet


“You also put my feet in the stocks [as punishment]
And [critically] observe all my paths;
You set a circle and limit around the soles of my feet [which I must not overstep],
Verse ConceptsPaths Of BelieversGod Seeing All PeoplePathsfootprints


Suddenly he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter [not knowing the outcome],
Or as one in stocks going to the correction [to be given] to a fool,
Verse ConceptsBeing Killed Like An AnimalKilled Like An AnimalDeerimpulsiveness


‘He puts my feet in the stocks [to hinder and humiliate me];
He [suspiciously] watches all my paths,’ [you say].
Verse ConceptsWatchfulness, DivineGod Is UnchangeableGod Seeing All People

Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate by the house of the Lord. Verse ConceptsFloggingGatesNamed Gates

He, having received such a [strict] command, threw them into the inner prison (dungeon) and fastened their feet in the stocks [in an agonizing position]. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsInjury To Feet