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Jer 8:16 — 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

The snorting		Grotius observes, after Jerome, that Nebuchadnezzar, having subdued Phoenicia, passed through Dan, in his way to Jerusalem.
was heard		Jer 4:15,16; Jdg 18:29; Jdg 20:1
the whole		Jer 4:24; Hab 3:10
at the		Jer 6:23; Jer 47:3; Jdg 5:22; Nah 1:4,5; Nah 3:2
of his strong ones		Of his war-horses. This is a fine image; so terrible was the united neighings of the cavalry of the Babylonians, that the reverberation of the air caused the ground to tremble.
all that is in it		Heb. the fulness thereof. Psa 24:1; 1Cr 10:26,28

Correlating Passages

was heard

	Jer 4:15	For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
	Jer 4:16	Make ye mention to the nations; behold, publish against Jerusalem, [that] watchers come from a far country, and give out their voice against the cities of Judah.
	Jdg 18:29	And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city [was] Laish at the first.
	Jdg 20:1	Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh.

the whole

	Jer 4:24	I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
	Hab 3:10	The mountains saw thee, [and] they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, [and] lifted up his hands on high.

at the

	Jer 6:23	They shall lay hold on bow and spear; they [are] cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, set in array as men for war against thee, O daughter of Zion.
	Jer 47:3	At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong [horses], at the rushing of his chariots, [and at] the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers shall not look back to [their] children for feebleness of hands;
	Jdg 5:22	Then were the horsehoofs broken by the means of the pransings, the pransings of their mighty ones.
	Nah 1:4	He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
	Nah 1:5	The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
	Nah 3:2	The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.

all that is in it

	Psa 24:1	[[A Psalm of David.]] The earth [is] the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
	1Cr 10:26	For the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof.
	1Cr 10:28	But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth [is] the Lord's, and the fulness thereof:

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Scott, Thomas. "Jeremiah 8:16," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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