Nehemiah 2:16

New English Translation

The officials did not know where I had gone or what I had been doing, for up to this point I had not told any of the Jews or the priests or the nobles or the officials or the rest of the workers.

Cross References

Nehemiah 2:15

I continued up the valley during the night, inspecting the wall. Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate, and so returned.

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, “You see the problem that we have: Jerusalem is desolate and its gates are burned. Come on! Let’s rebuild the wall of Jerusalem so that this reproach will not continue.”

Exodus 24:11

But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

Proverbs 12:23

The shrewd person conceals knowledge, but foolish people publicize folly.