The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
For I have heard the whispering of many: “Terror is on every side! Report him; let us report him!” All my trusted friend
Why am I seeing this? They are terrified, they are retreating; their warriors are defeated, they flee in haste without l
For I hear the slander of many; there is terror on every side. They conspire against me and plot to take my life.
You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escap
Do not go out to the fields; do not walk the road. For the enemy has a sword; terror is on every side.
And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth or the Valley of Ben
Then he brought them out and asked, “Sirs, what must I do to be saved?”
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and
Then the LORD said to Hosea, “Name him Jezreel, for soon I will bring the bloodshed of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu, a
and go out to the Valley of Ben-hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you,
So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Be
(Zephaniah the priest, however, had read this letter to Jeremiah the prophet.)
The next day the rulers, elders, and scribes assembled in Jerusalem,
When daylight came, the magistrates sent their officers with the order: “Release those men.”
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.