Nehemiah 2:12
And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem, and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
11And I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Cross References
Joshua 10:9So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them suddenly.
Judges 9:32Arise therefore in the night with the people that is with thee and he hid in the field:
Psalms 51:18For if thou hadst desired sacrifice, I would indeed have given it: with burnt offerings thou wilt not be delighted.
Proverbs 12:23A cautious man concealeth knowledge: and the heart of fools publisheth folly.
Jeremiah 31:33Not according to the covenant which I made with their fathers, in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt: the covenant which they made void, and I had dominion over them, saith the Lord.
Amos 5:13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that 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 →