Jeremiah 8:16
From Dan was heard the snorting of his horses; at the sound of the neighing of his war-steeds trembleth the whole land: and they are come, and devour the land, and all that filleth it; the city, and those that dwell therein.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
15We hoped for peace, but no happiness is here; for a time of cure, and behold here is terror.”
Cross References
Judges 5:22Then were crushed the hoofs of the horses, through the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones.
Judges 20:1Then went out all the children of Israel, and the congregation was assembled together as one man, from Dan even to Beer-sheba', with the land of Gil'ad, unto the Lord in Mizpah.
Psalms 24:1“Of David a psalm.” Unto the Lord belongeth the earth with what filleth it, the world and they that dwell therein;
Jeremiah 4:15For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth unhappiness from the mountain of Ephraim.
Jeremiah 6:23Bow and spear shall they firmly grasp; cruel are they, and will have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and upon horses do they ride; set in array as one man for the war, against thee, O daughter of Zion.
Jeremiah 47:3Because of the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stud-horses, because of the rushing sound of his chariots, the rumbling of his wheels, fathers do not turn round to their children from their feebleness of hands;
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 8:14-22
Destruction Threatened for Sin; Despair of Sinners in Trouble; The Prophet's Lamentation. ( b. c. 606.) 13 I will surely consume them, saith the Lord : there shall be no grapes on the vine, nor figs on the fig tree, and the leaf shall fade; and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them. 14 Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have… Read the whole commentary →