Nehemiah 2:12
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me. I neither told any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem, nor was there any beast with me except the beast that I rode upon.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
11So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Cross References
Joshua 10:9Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, [for] he went up from Gilgal all the night.
Judges 9:32Now therefore, up by night, thou and the people who are with thee, and lay in wait in the field.
Psalms 51:18Do good in thy good pleasure to Zion. Build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
Jeremiah 31:33But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says LORD: I will give my laws (LXX/NT) in their inward parts, and I will write them (LXX/NT) in their hearts. And I will be their God, and th
Amos 5:13Therefore he who is prudent shall keep silence in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 2:10-20
Nehemiah's Journey to Jerusalem; the Malice of Sanballat, &c. ( b. c. 445.) 9 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent captains of the army and horsemen with me. 10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. 11 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. 12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me;… Read the whole commentary →