“Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the Lord.”
The stocks were an instrument of public punishment and humiliation, ensuring that everyone passing by would see Jeremiah confined and mocked. The location "in the stocks in the house of the LORD" is particularly bitter—the prophet is punished in the very temple where he announced God's judgment. The contrast between Jeremiah's attempt to be faithful to God's word and his punishment in God's own house emphasizes the depth of the apostasy: even the temple has become hostile to God's truth.
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