Nehemiah 2:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 26:9

Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate, and at the Angle and fortified them.

Nehemiah 1:3

They replied, “The remnant there in the province who escaped captivity are in great trouble and shame; the wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been destroyed by fire.”

Nehemiah 12:31

Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great companies that gave thanks and went in procession. One went to the right on the wall to the Dung Gate,

Nehemiah 2:12

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.

Nehemiah 2:15

So I went up by way of the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate and so returned.

Nehemiah 2:17

Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in, how Jerusalem lies in ruins with its gates burned. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we may no longer suffer disgrace.”

Nehemiah 2:3

I said to the king, “May the king live forever! Why should my face not be sad, when the city, the place of my ancestors’ graves, lies waste and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

Jeremiah 5:10

Go up through her vine rows and destroy, but do not make a full end; strip away her branches, for they are not the Lord’s.