Nehemiah 2:11-13

Christian Standard Bible

Preparing to Rebuild the Walls

¹¹ After I arrived in Jerusalem and had been there three days,^{(A) 12} I got up at night and took a few men with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God had laid on my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal I took^[a] was the one I was riding. ¹³ I went out at night through the Valley Gate toward the Serpent’s^[b] Well and the Dung Gate,^(B) and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.^(C)