Jeremiah 20:2
smote: Jer 1:19, Jer 19:14, Jer 19:15, Jer 26:8, Jer 29:26, Jer 36:26, Jer 37:15, Jer 37:16, Jer 38:6, 1Ki 22:27, 2Ch 16:10, 2Ch 24:21, Amo 7:10-13, Mat 5:10-12, Mat 21:35, Mat 23:34-37, Act 4:3, Act 5:18, Act 5:40, Act 7:52, Act 16:22-24, Heb 11:36, Heb 11:37, Rev 2:10, Rev 17:6 the stocks: Hammahpecheth from haphach "to overturn, subvert, distort," generally denotes an overthrow (Deu 29:22. Isa 1:7; Isa 10:19), and seems to signify here a sort of stocks, by which the limbs were distorted into uneasy postures. So the Chaldee, keephtha and Jerome, nervus which he explains in his comment as "a kind of wooden fetter, into which the feet were thrust, vinculi lignei genus, cui pedes inseruntur̀‡ Some learned men understand it as merely signifying a place of confinement, or house of correction; but the word is never used for any of the prisons into which the prophet was afterwards cast; and the punishment seems to have been public and ignominious. in the high: Jer 37:13, Jer 38:7, Zec 14:10 Reciprocal: 1Ki 13:4 - Lay hold 2Ch 18:23 - Zedekiah 2Ch 18:26 - Put 2Ch 27:3 - high gate Job 33:11 - putteth Pro 7:22 - the correction Jer 11:21 - thou Jer 36:5 - General Mat 26:67 - and others Mar 12:3 - they Luk 12:45 - to beat Luk 20:10 - beat Joh 18:22 - struck Act 5:20 - stand Act 16:24 - and made Act 23:2 - to smite