Gedaliah son of Pashhur

Gedaliah son of Pashhur

Gedaliah son of Pashhur is a character in the Old Testament book of Jeremiah. He is described as one of the political opponents of the Jeremiah, one of those who applead to King Zedekiah to have Jeremiah executed because of his prophesies that Jerusalem and the Temple would be destroyed by the Babylonians due to the wickedness of the Jews:

And Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashhur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah spoke unto all the people, saying: "Thus saith HaShem: He that remaineth in this city shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence; but he that goeth forth to the Chaldeans shall live, and his life shall be unto him for a prey, and he shall live. Thus saith HaShem: This city shall surely be given into the hand of the army of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it." Then the princes said unto the king: "Let this man, we pray thee, be put to death; forasmuch as he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them; for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt." [Jeremiah 38,1-4 (JPS, 1917)]

In August 2008, the Israeli archelologist Eilat Mazar announced the discovery of a bulla, a lump of clay bearing a seal impression, inscribed with the name Gedaliah ben Pashur, in the excavations in the City of David, just south of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Mazar noted that the just-discovered bulla was found just yards from the spot where, three years ago, another bulla was found with a name from the above verse, viz. Yehukual ben Shelemyahu. Both men served as ministers to King Zedekiah, the last ruler of the Kingdom of Judah before Jerusalem and its Temple were destroyed by the Babylonians in 587 B.C.

References

ee also

* Biblical archaeology
* Biblical figures

External links

[http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331162371&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull Article in Jerusalem Post]


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