Nehemiah 2:12
I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There wasn’t any animal with me except the animal that I rode on.
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11So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.
Cross References
Joshua 10:9Joshua therefore came to them suddenly. He marched from Gilgal all night.
Judges 9:32Now therefore, go up by night, you and the people who are with you, and lie in wait in the field.
Psalms 51:18Do well in your good pleasure to Zion. Build the walls of Jerusalem.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man keeps his knowledge, but the hearts of fools proclaim foolishness.
Jeremiah 31:33“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” says the LORD: “I will put my law in their inward parts, and I will write it in their heart. I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Amos 5:13Therefore a prudent person keeps silent 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 →