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Jeremiah 8:16

in Jeremiah 8

The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all who dwell in it.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan: at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones the whole land trembleth; for they are come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it; the city and those that dwell therein.

KJV

The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

This verse in Jeremiah 8

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Jeremiah · Written before 420.

(Verse 16.) And a sound of his horses was heard, from the voice of the neighing of his warriors (or cavalry) the whole earth was shaken. And they came and devoured (or they will come and devour) the land and its abundance, the city and its inhabitants. Therefore, as the Septuagint translated above, the people did not say: Let us enter fortified cities, but a fortified city, to signify Jerusalem. Finally, even now he brings forth: the city and its inhabitants.

This site's exposition

We looked for peace, but no good came

on Jeremiah 8:15-17

We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble! answers the false prophets of 6:14 and 8:11 directly, the peace they promised failing to arrive on schedule. The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan announces the invasion from the north by its sound before its sight, Dan marking Israel's northernmost point and the direction every threat in the book approaches from. Serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed pictures an enemy immune to the usual remedies, the snake charmer's art itself defeated, which the bench reads as judgment beyond any human counter-measure.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The snorting - The fury of the Chaldeans march is described by the snorting of their horses, which is a noise they make through their nostrils. Heard - Even to Jerusalem. Have devoured - It is spoken in a prophetical style, who use to express the certainty of what shall be, as if it actually were already.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan - From this to the end of Jer 8:15 is repeated from Babylon to Jerusalem; and it was by this city, after the battle of Carchemish, that Nebuchadnezzar, in pursuing the Egyptians, entered Palestine. The whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones - Of his war horses. This is a fine image; so terrible was the united neighing of the cavalry of the Babylonians that the reverberation of the air caused the ground to tremble.

The words behind it

17 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • מִדָּ֤ןfrom Dan

    midanH1835

  • נִשְׁמַע֙it has been heard

    nishma'H80851159 times

  • נַחְרַ֣ת[the] snorting of

    nachratH5170

  • סוּסָ֗יוhorses his

    susavH5483140 times

  • מִקּוֹל֙from [the] sound of

    mikolH6963506 times

  • מִצְהֲל֣וֹת[the] neighings of

    mitzhalotH4684

  • אַבִּירָ֔יוmighty [horses] his

    ʾabiravH4717 times

  • רָעֲשָׁ֖הit has shaken

    raashahH749330 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H36055413 times

  • הָאָ֑רֶץthe land

    haaretzH7762504 times

  • וַיָּב֗וֹאוּand they have come

    vaiyavouH9352568 times

  • וַיֹּֽאכְלוּ֙and they have consumed

    vaiyokheluH398810 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land

    ʾeretzH7762504 times

  • וּמְלוֹאָ֔הּand what fills it

    umeloahH4393

  • עִ֖יר[the] city

    ʾirH58921090 times

  • וְיֹ֥שְׁבֵיand [the] inhabitants

    veyosheveiH34271079 times

  • בָֽהּ׃ סin <the> it

    vah

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    1 Corinthians 10:28

    But if someone tells you, “This food was offered to idols,” then do not eat it, for the sake of the one who told you and for the sake of conscience—

    it leads to

    • 1 Corinthians 8:10–13

      For if someone with a weak conscience sees you who are well informed eating in an idol’s temple, will he not be encouraged to eat food sacrificed to idols?

    • Romans 14:15

      If your brother is distressed by what you eat, you are no longer acting in love. Do not by your eating destroy your brother, for whom Christ died.

    • 1 Corinthians 8:7

      But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it…

    • 1 Corinthians 10:26

      for, “The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.”

    • Psalms 115:16

      The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth He has given to mankind.

  • Through

    Judges 18:29

    They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 19:47

      (Later, when the territory of the Danites was lost to them, they went up and fought against Leshem, captured it, and put it to the sword. So they took possession of Leshem, settled there,…

    • Genesis 14:14

      And when Abram heard that his relative had been captured, he mobilized the 318 trained men born in his household, and they set out in pursuit as far as Dan.

    • 1 Kings 15:20

      And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-beth-maacah, and the whole land of Naphtali, including the region of Chinnereth.

About Jeremiah

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Carl Friedrich Keil, The Prophecies of Jeremiah; Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.