e the
episode after Carchemish, but this is uncertain; Jeremiah is still not
under restraint nor in hiding.

He is charged to buy an earthen jar and take with him some of the elders
of the people and of the priests to the Potsherd Gate in the Valley of
Hinnom.(358) There, after predicting the evils which the Lord shall bring
on the city because of her idolatry and her sacrifice of children in that
Valley down which they were looking from this gate, he broke the jar and
flung it upon the heaps of shattered earthenware from which the gate
derived its name;(359) and returning to the Temple repeated the Lord's
doom upon Judah and Jerusalem. He was heard by Pashhur of the priestly
guild of Immer, who appears to have been chief of the Temple police, and
after being _smitten_ was put in the stocks, but the next day released,
probably rather because his friends among the princes had prevailed in his
favour than because the mind of Pashhur had meantime changed. For Jeremiah
on his release immediately faced his captor with these words:--

XX. 3. The Lord hath called thy name not Pashhur but
Magor-Missabib, Terror-all-round. 4. For thus saith the Lord, Lo,
I will make thee a terror to thyself and all thy friends, and they
shall fall by the sword of their foes, and thine own eyes shall be
seeing it; and all Judah shall I give into the hand of the king of
Babylon, and he shall carry them to exile and smite them with the
sword ... 6. And thou Pashhur and all that dwell in thy house
shall go into captivity and in Babylon thou shalt die.(360)

At last Jeremiah definitely states what Judah's doom from the North is to
be. We wish that we knew the date of this utterance.

Assigned by its title to _the days of Jehoiakim_ is another action of the
Prophet, which is the exhibition rather of an example than of a symbol,
Ch. XXXV. The story was probably dictated by Jeremiah to Baruch, for while
the Hebrew text opens it in the first person (2-5), the Greek version
carries the first person throughout and the later change by the Hebrew to
the third person (12 and 18) may easily have been due to a copyist
mistaking the first personal suffix for the initial letter of the name
Jeremiah.(361)

The Rechabites, a tent-dwelling tribe sojourning within the borders, and
worshipping the God, of Israel, had taken refuge from the Chaldean
invasion within the walls of Jerusalem. Knowing their fidelity to their
ancestral