Nahum 2:6

Gates. There is either a figurative reference to the assault of the enemy or a reference to the literal flooding of the city. However, the details are meager. Some hold that the prophecy met its fulfillment in the incident described by the Greek historian Diodorus (ii. 26, 27), who reports that Nineveh was captured because of an unusually great flood of the Euphrates (Tigris?), which destroyed part of the wall and opened the city to the Medes and Babylonians.

Dissolved. Probably to be taken figuratively, meaning that the palace would be weakened, helpless to offer any substantial resistance to the enemy.