Matthew Poole and continuators on Jeremiah 8:16

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.

The fury of the Chaldaeans march is described by the snorting of their Horses, which is a noise they make through their Nostrils, when they are chafed, and fretted.

i. e. Even to Ierusalem, q. d. the dreadfulness of the noise shall be heard from far, or rather, though Ierusalem seem to be secure, yet the furthest Coasts of the Land are in great consternation, viz. the outmost boundary of Canaan Northward, through which the Chaldaean Army was to march. See chap. 4.15. or it is said to be heard, either the noise it self, or the fame of it, chap. 6.24.

His choice Horses or Cavalry, or his stout and sturdy ones, as the word signifies, and expressed by their brisk frollicksomness, and courage in the word neighing properly applied to Horses, understanding here the chief of them, and the word for strong ones is applyed to any thing, that excels, as to man, Iob 34.20. to Angels, Psal. 78.25. A[illegible: 1 letter]gels food or the bread of the mighty. And for Horses as here, and Iudg. 5.22. chap. 47.3.

Heb. the fullness of it, the Trees, and Fruits, and wealth of the Land, they are entred upon their spoil, and will leave nothing in the Land, chap. 4.20. It is spoken in a prophetical stile, who use to express the certainty of what shall be, as if it actually were already.

viz. Ierusalem, or rather the Cities with all their Inhabitants, as well as the Country, the singular number, being put for the plural, as Isa. 27.10.

Marginal references: Heb. the fulness thereof.