Nahum 2:6-7

6 The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
7 It is decreed[a] that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.

Nahum 2:6-7 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NAHUM 2

This chapter gives an account of the destruction of the city of Nineveh; describes the instruments of it as very terrible and powerful, and not to be resisted, Na 2:1-4. The manner of taking it, the flight of its inhabitants, and the spoil of its riches and treasures, Na 2:5-10 and the king and the princes thereof, compared to a lion, and a lion's whelp, are insulted as being without a den or dwelling place, because of their cruelty and ravening, for which the Lord was against them, and threatened them with utter ruin, which he brought upon them, Na 2:11-13.

Cross References 3

  • 1. Isaiah 45:1; Nahum 3:13
  • 2. S Genesis 8:8; S Isaiah 59:11
  • 3. Isaiah 32:12

Footnotes 1

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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