Nehemiah 2:16-18

International Children’s Bible

¹⁶ The officers did not know where I had gone or what I was doing. I had not yet said anything to the Jews, the priests, the important men or the officers. I had not said anything to any of the others who would do the work.

¹⁷ Then I said to them, “You can see the trouble we have here. Jerusalem is a pile of ruins. And its gates have been burned. Come, let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem. Then we won’t be full of shame any longer.” ¹⁸ I also told them how God had been kind to me. And I told them what the king had said to me.

Then they answered, “Let’s start rebuilding.” So they began to work hard.