Nehemiah 2:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then I got up during the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. The only animal I took was the animal I rode.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No beast was with me except the one I rode.

American Standard Version (1901)

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

Common English Bible

I set out at night, taking only a few people with me. I didn’t tell anyone what my God was prompting me to do for Jerusalem, and the only animal I took was the one I rode.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I got up in the night, I and a few men with me. And I did not reveal to anyone what God had placed in my heart to do in Jerusalem. And there was no animal with me, except the animal on which I was sitting.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me, and I told not any man what God had put in my heart to do in Jerusalem; and there was no beast with me, but the beast that I rode upon.

Nehemiah 2:12 Cross References

Ezra 7:27

Blessed be the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who put such a thing as this into the heart of the king to glorify the house of the Lord in Jerusalem

Nehemiah 2:11

So I came to Jerusalem and was there for three days.

Nehemiah 2:13

I went out by night by the Valley Gate past the Dragon’s Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that had been broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.

Psalm 122:6

Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: “May they prosper who love you.

Psalm 51:18

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem;

Proverbs 12:23

One who is clever conceals knowledge, but the mind of a fool broadcasts folly.

Ecclesiastes 3:7

a time to tear and a time to sew; a time to keep silent and a time to speak;

Jeremiah 31:33

But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

Jeremiah 32:40

I will make an everlasting covenant with them, never to draw back from doing good to them, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they may not turn from me.

Amos 5:13

Therefore the prudent will keep silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

Micah 7:5

Put no trust in a friend; have no confidence in a loved one; guard the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your embrace,

Matthew 10:16

“I am sending you out like sheep into the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

Matthew 2:14

Then Joseph got up, took the child and his mother by night, and went to Egypt

2 Corinthians 8:16

But thanks be to God, who put in the heart of Titus the same eagerness for you that I myself have.

Joshua 10:9

So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.

Revelation 17:17

For God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by agreeing to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled.

Judges 6:27

So Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had told him, but because he was too afraid of his family and the townspeople to do it by day, he did it by night.

Judges 9:32

Now therefore, go by night, you and the troops who are with you, and lie in wait in the fields.