Nahum 2:6
The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
BSB
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ASV
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
KJV
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
Nahum 2:6
The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
BSB
ASV
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
KJV
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
The gates of the rivers shall be opened - I have already referred to this, see the note on Nah 1:8; but it will be necessary to be more particular. The account given by Diodorus Siculus, lib. ii., is very surprising. He begins thus: Ην δ’ αυτῳ λογιον παραδεδομενον εκ προγονων, κ.τ.λ. - “There was a prophecy received from their forefathers, that Nineveh should not be taken till the river first became an enemy to the city.
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
