Nahum 2:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The gates or dams of the rivers [surrounding and guarding Nineveh] are opened and the [imperial] palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents] and is in dismay.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

Common English Bible

⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened; the palace melts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ The gates of the rivers have been opened, and the temple has been pulled down to the ground.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground.

Nahum 2:6 Cross References

Nahum 2:5

He remembereth his worthies: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

Nahum 2:7

And Huzzab is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids mourn as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

Nahum 3:13

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars.