Verse 14
In irony (cf. Nahum 2:1) Nahum urged the Ninevites to draw plenty of water so they would have enough to drink and so they could extinguish the fires that would burn their gates and city. They should strengthen their fortifications and make more bricks to build their walls and battlements higher and stronger and to fill in the holes the enemy would punch in them.
"Nineveh’s ruins include traces of a counter-wall built by the inhabitants to defend the city near places where the enemy had broken down some of the city’s defenses." [Note: Johnson, p. 1503.]
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