 Apparently enraged at the plainness with which Jeremiah uttered his solemn warnings of coming judgements because of the abounding iniquity of the times, Pashur "smote Jeremiah the prophet" (this could mean that he ordered the temple police to seize him and inflict the corporal punishment of up to forty stripes found in Deuteronomy ); then he placed him in the stocks in the high gate of Benjamin, where he remained all night.Upon being set free in the morning, Jeremiah went to Pashur () and announced to him that God had changed his name to ;, i.e., "terror on every side", and that he would be later carried captive to Babylon and die there ().