15so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate.


In Context

12 I set out during the night with a few men. I had not told anyone what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I was riding on.

13 By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal Well and the Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down, and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire.

14 Then I moved on toward the Fountain Gate and the King's Pool, but there was not enough room for my mount to get through;

15 so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work.

17 Then I said to them, "You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace."

Nehemiah 2:15 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and [so] returned.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:15And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15And I went up in the night through the valley, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the valley-gate and returned.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15Then I went up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:15and I am going up through the brook by night, and am measuring about the wall, and turn back, and come in through the gate of the valley, and turn back.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:15Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.