For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
Parallel translations
- WEB For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
- BSB For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.
- NKJV For a voice declares from Dan And proclaims affliction from Mount Ephraim:
- NASB For a voice declares from Dan, And proclaims wickedness from Mount Ephraim.
- NLT Your destruction has been announced from Dan and the hill country of Ephraim.
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Quick answer
A messenger's voice from Dan and Ephraim announces approaching disaster. It matters because it traces the enemy's relentless advance toward Jerusalem from the north.
Overview
Dan and Ephraim lay to the north of Jerusalem, so the report of evil spreading from there marks the invader's progress toward the capital. The news of judgment moves nearer with each verse. The relentless approach reminds the reader that warnings of God's word are not idle but point to real consequences (Jeremiah 8:16).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Jer 8:16The 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.
- Jer 6:1O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.
- Judg 18:29And 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.
- Josh 17:15And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
- Judg 20:1Then 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.
- Josh 20:7And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
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