2 Then Pashʹhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks+ that were at the Upper Gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.

2 I saw six men coming from the direction of the upper gate+ that faces north, each with his weapon for smashing in his hand; and there was one man among them clothed in linen, with a secretary’s inkhorn* at his waist, and they came in and stood beside the copper altar.+