Nehemiah 2:9-13

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Nehemiah Inspects Jerusalem's Walls

⁹ Then I came to ^(A)the governors of the province Beyond the River and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me officers of the army and horsemen. ¹⁰ But when ^(B)Sanballat the Horonite and ^(C)Tobiah the Ammonite servant heard this, it displeased them greatly that someone had come to seek the welfare of the people of Israel.

^11 (D)So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. ¹² Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode. ¹³ I went out by night by ^(E)the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to ^(F)the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem ^(G)that were broken down ^(H)and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.