Nahum 2:6 KJV — MannaFest

Nahum 2:6

The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

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ASV

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

WEB

The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

YLT

Gates of the rivers have been opened, And the palace is dissolved.

DBT

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melteth away.

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Nahum — A century after Jonah, Nineveh is still Nineveh — and Nahum's burden is the city's destruction. Three short chapters of breathtaking poetry on the fall of Assyria's capital.

Author: Nahum the Elkoshite (1:1)
Date: Between 663 BC (the fall of Thebes, 3:8) and 612 BC (Nineveh's actual fall)

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Isaiah 45:1
Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
Nahum 3:13
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
2 Peter 3:10–11
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

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); those gates of Nineveh which open upon the river Tigris (on which Nineveh was built) shall be first forced by, or betrayed to, the enemy, and by those gates they shall enter. And then the palace shall be dissolved, either the king's house or the house of Nisroch his god; the same word signifies both a palace and a temple.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Traces of dams ("gates," or sluices) for regulating the supply are still visible, so that the whole city could be surrounded with a water barrier (Na 2:8). Besides, on the east, the weakest side, it was further protected by a lofty double rampart with a moat two hundred feet wide between its two parts, cut in the rocky ground.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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