Then Pashur smote Jeremiah] Thus this Priest, as a prime instrument of Satan, first perpetrated that against Gods prophet, that neither King, nor Princes, nor people durst formerly attempt. put him in the stocks that were] Or, prison that was. 2 Chronicles 16:10. Chap. 29. 26. in the high gate of Benjamin] The gate, not of the Temple, but of the Citie: called the High-gate, by way of distinction from the Tower, that looked also the same way. Chap. 37. 12. and 38. 7.