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For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes evil from the hills of Ephraim:
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Judgment is Coming Fast
Commentators explain that mentioning Dan (in the far north) and then Mount Ephraim (closer to Jerusalem) paints a picture of a rapidly advancing enemy. The prophet uses this imagery to make the threat of God's judgment feel immediate and inescapable for a people who had grown complacent. The warning is that the consequences of sin are closer than they appear.
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Jeremiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Dan - The border town of Palestine on the north (Deuteronomy 34:1).
Mount Ephraim - The northern boundary of Judea…
19th Century
Anglican
Dan ... Mount Ephraim. — The two places are chosen, not like Dan and Beer-sheba, as extreme limits, but as stages in the march of …
Baptist
How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you? For a voice declares from Dan, and publishes affliction from Mount Ephraim. Make mention to…
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16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet again repeats what he had said—that the Jews were given up to final ruin on account of their perverseness. For they had provoked God so…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For a voice declareth from Dan The coming of the enemy, as Kimchi explains it, Nebuchadnezzar, the king of the Chaldeans; a me…
The fierce conqueror of the neighboring nations was to make Judah desolate. The prophet was afflicted to see the people lulled into security by fal…
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13th Century
Catholic
Here, he predicts the siege:
The messenger of the siege. From Dan, whose land the Chaldeans would encounter first …
