Nehemiah 2:12
and I rise by night, I and a few men with me, and have not declared to a man what my God is giving to my heart to do for Jerusalem, and there is no beast with me except the beast on which I am riding.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
11And I come to Jerusalem, and I am there three days,
Cross References
Joshua 10:9And Joshua comes to them suddenly (all the night he has gone up from Gilgal),
Judges 9:32and now, rise by night, you and the people who [are] with you, and lay wait in the field,
Psalms 51:18Do good in Your good pleasure with Zion, || You build the walls of Jerusalem.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man is concealing knowledge, || And the heart of fools proclaims folly.
Jeremiah 31:33“For this [is] the covenant that I make, || With the house of Israel, after those days,” || A declaration of YHWH, || “I have given My law in their inward part, || And I write it on their heart, || And I have been their God, || And they are My people.
Amos 5:13Therefore the wise is silent 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 →