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 unto my heart to do for Jerusalem, and there is no beast with me except the beast on which I am riding.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
11And I come in unto Jerusalem, and I am there three days,
Cross References
Joshua 10:9And Joshua cometh in unto them suddenly (all the night he hath gone up from Gilgal),
Judges 9:32and, now, rise by night, thou and the people who [are] with thee, and lay wait in the field,
Psalms 51:18Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man is concealing knowledge, And the heart of fools proclaimeth folly.
Jeremiah 31:33For this [is] the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.
Amos 5:13Therefore is the wise at that time silent, For an evil time it [is].
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 →