Jeremiah 20:1

Pashur. most noble. The first person named in this book, beside Jeremiah. Not the Pashur of Jeremiah 21. This incident is in the third year of Jehoiakim, just before Nebuchadnezzar comes for the first time. Jeremiah 2. is in the latter part of Zedekiah's reign, nineteen years later.

Immer. The ancestor of the sixteenth order of priests (1 Chronicles 24:14).

the priest: i.e. Immer.

chief governor: i.e. Pashur.

the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah.

prophesied. was prophesying.