Nehemiah 2:12
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me but I told no man what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem and there was no beast with me, except the beast that I rode upon.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Cross References
Joshua 10:9And Joshua came upon them suddenly; he went up from Gilgal all night.
Judges 9:32and now, rise up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in ambush in the fields.
Psalms 51:18Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build the walls of Jerusalem.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man concealeth knowledge; but the heart of the foolish proclaimeth folly.
Jeremiah 31:33For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in this 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 →