Nehemiah 2:12
Then arose I in the night, I and some few men with me; but I had not told any man what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem: nor was there any beast with me, save the beast on which I rode.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
11So came I to Jerusalem, and remained there three days.
Cross References
Joshua 10:9And Joshua came unto them suddenly; the whole night he went up from Gilgal.
Judges 9:32And now rise up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in wait in the field:
Psalms 51:18(51:20) Do good in thy favor unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man concealeth [his] knowledge; but the heart of fools proclaimeth [their] folly.
Jeremiah 31:33(31:32) But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, I place my law in their inward parts, and upon their heart will I write it; and I will be unto them for a God, and they shall be unto me for a people.
Amos 5:13Therefore will the intelligent keep silence in 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 →