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10 But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard this, they were greatly displeased[a] that a person had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites.[b]

Nehemiah Inspects the Walls and Decides to Restore Them

11 I came to Jerusalem and was there for three days. 12 I got up during the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anybody what my God put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No animal was with me except the animal that I was riding on.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 2:10 Literally “it was a great disaster for them”
  2. Nehemiah 2:10 Literally “sons/children of Israel”