[2] Pashhur the son of Immer (possibly the same as Amariah, Nehemiah 10:3; 12:2), was deputy chief priest (paqid nagid[3]) of the temple (Jeremiah 20:1, 2).
Enraged at the plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of coming judgements because of the abounding iniquity of the times, "Pashhur thereupon had Jeremiah flogged and put in the cell at the Upper Benjamin Gate in the House of GOD."
Upon being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashhur and announced, "GOD has named you not Pashhur, but Magor-missabib," i.e., "terror on every side", and that he would be later carried captive to Babylon and die there (Jeremiah 20:6).
[4] Pashhur, the son of Malchiah, was another priest who was sent by King Zedekiah to Jeremiah to inquire of the Lord regarding the impending attack of Nebuchadnezzar II of the Neo-Babylonian Empire in Jeremiah 21:1.
The pottery shards of the Tel Arad ostraca unearthed in the 1970s written in Paleo-Hebrew mention a Pashhur.