Bible Strands
Jeremiah 4:15
For a voice resounds from Dan, proclaiming disaster from the hills of Ephraim.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jeremiah addresses Judah and Jerusalem immediately after commanding them to repent. The prophet delivers an oracle of sudden judgment following the call to cleanse the heart in the preceding verse.
The words — The Hebrew קֹל (kol, "a voice") and אָוֶן ('aven, "trouble") frame the verse's core image of an unmissable announcement of impending doom.
The thread — This geographic pairing echoes Jeremiah 8:16, where enemy horses snort from Dan, and recalls the tribal territory of Ephraim noted in Joshua 17:15 and 20:7.
Why it lands — The passage demands immediate recognition of inescapable judgment, forcing the listener to confront the reality that divine warning precedes national collapse.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.
Cross-references
- Jeremiah 8:16 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.
- Joshua 17:15 Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”
- Joshua 20:7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
- Judges 18:29 They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
- Judges 20:1 Then all the Israelites from Dan to Beersheba and from the land of Gilead came out, and the congregation assembled as one man before the LORD at Mizpah.
- Jeremiah 6:1 “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.