Charles Ellicott Commentary Jeremiah 8:16

"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." — Jeremiah 8:16 (ASV)

Heard from Dan. —As in Jeremiah 4:13, the invasion by an army whose cavalry and war chariots formed the most terrible contingent was a special terror to the Israelites. Even at Dan, the northern boundary of Palestine (see Note on Jeremiah 4:15), there was a sound of terror in the very snortings of the horses. The patristic interpretation that the prophet indicates the coming of Antichrist from the tribe deserves a passing notice as one of the eccentricities of exegesis.