Nahum 2:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The gates of the river shall be opened— Diodorus informs us, that there was an old prophesy, that Nineveh should not be taken till the river became an enemy to the city; and in the third year of the siege the river, being swollen with continual rains, overflowed part of the city, and broke down the wall for twenty furlongs; then the king, thinking that the oracle was fulfilled, and the river become an enemy, built a large funeral pile in the palace, and collecting together all his wealth, his concubines, and eunuchs, burned himself and the palace with them all; and the enemy entered at the breach which the waters had made, and took the city; so that what was predicted in chap. 1: Nahum 2:8 was literally fulfilled. See Newton on the Prophesies, vol. 1: