Nehemiah 2:15-17

21st Century King James Version

¹⁵ Then 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.

¹⁶ And the rulers knew not whither I went or what I did; neither had I as yet told it to the Jews, nor to the priests, nor to the nobles, nor to the rulers, nor to the rest who did the work.

¹⁷ Then said I unto them, “Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. Come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.”