Get the sand bags! The wall, the palace, they are falling! Nahum 2:5-7

Good morning all!  God is good all the time, all the time God is good.  TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!!
  Wow!  Already today is a wonderful day that the LORD hath made.  Let us rejoice and be glad. If you are interested in interesting facts in the Bible go to Christianity - Thoughts by Johnny and do the page before you.  Okay, now back to Nahum, Sennacherib and Nineveh.
    Okay, Sennacherib is scared, angry, and determined to defeat the attacking army. Verse ⁵ He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.  
  The king's "worthies" are his nobles and military leaders and he is counting on them and what happens?  They stumbled - the ancient historian Diodorus Siculus tells us they they were involved in drunken carousings and very unprepared.  Excavations portrays them, kings, queens, court and all as reclining, relaxing, and toasting one another.
   Then, "they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared."  In this call to arms the nobles are trying to make it to the wall, the cities primary defense.  The wall around Nineveh seemed to be something no one could break through.  It was 60 miles long and had 1500 towers which were 200 feet high.  Normally, any military could not normally penetrate such a massive wall; however, this is not a normal battle - God is involved.
   What happened next is not something anyone would even think could happen.  The Greek historian Diodorus notes an old prophecy that Nineveh would only be taken if the Tigris River became its enemy.  
⁶ The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
        Well, guess what, yep, due to divine intervention the river overflowed its banks, washed away the foundations of the palace, and washed away the wall for twenty stadia.
  What is a stadia?  The STADIA was the length of the first athletic foot race event of the Olympiads. Because the length of most all sport stadium playing fields worldwide measure at 100 yards (or about 304 feet, or 1/20th of a nautical mile), the original STADIA is probably about 100 meters -- and not the assumed measurement of about 608 feet, or 1/10th of a nautical mile, as stated in many dictionaries.   Twenty stadia is about 1/2 mile.  Now the Medo-Babylonian horde had easy access to the city.  Wow!
⁷ And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
  Huzzab some experts think is the queen of Nineveh, others believe it refers to the city of Nineveh. Her "maids" refers to the citizens of Nineveh and the beating of their chests denotes frustration, fear, anguish, and all concerned with defeat.  God warned, slow to anger -- about 300 years God dealt with this city and her iniquities.  Love you all.
In Christ's Love and Grace
   Johnny