Nehemiah 2:15
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New International Version (©2011)
so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall. Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So, though it was still dark, I went up the Kidron Valley instead, inspecting the wall before I turned back and entered again at the Valley Gate.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So I went up at night by the ravine and inspected the wall. Then I entered the Valley Gate again and returned.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
So I went up at night by way of the valley and inspected the wall. Then heading back, I entered through the Valley Gate and returned.

International Standard Version (©2012)
I traveled the valley by night to inspect the wall, returning through the Valley Gate.

NET Bible (©2006)
I continued up the valley during the night, inspecting the wall. Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate, and so returned.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So I went through the valley that night and examined the wall. Then I turned back, entered Valley Gate, and returned.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Then went I up in the night by the valley, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I went up in the night by the torrent, and viewed the wall, and going back I came to the gate of the valley, and returned.

Darby Bible Translation
And I went up in the night through the valley, and viewed the wall, and turned back, and entered by the valley-gate and returned.

English Revised Version
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

Webster's Bible Translation
Then I went 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.

World English Bible
Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall; and I turned back, and entered by the valley gate, and so returned.

Young's Literal Translation
and I am going up through the brook by night, and am measuring about the wall, and turn back, and come in through the gate of the valley, and turn back.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

2:9-18 When Nehemiah had considered the matter, he told the Jews that God had put it into his heart to build the wall of Jerusalem. He does not undertake to do it without them. By stirring up ourselves and one another to that which is good, we strengthen ourselves and one another for it. We are weak in our duty, when we are cold and careless.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 15. - By the brook. "The brook Kidron," which skirted the city on the east. From this he would be able to "look up at the eastern wall" along its whole length, and see its condition. Following the brook, he was brought to the north-eastern angle of the city; on reaching which he seems to have "turned back" towards the point from which he had started, and skirting the northern wall, to have re-entered by the gate of the valley.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Then went I up in the night by the brook,.... The brook Kidron:

and viewed the wall; that was on that side:

and turned back; did not go quite round the wall, the way perhaps being obstructed with rubbish, and was unpassable or he had not time to do it:

and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned; into the city, the same way he went out of it, Nehemiah 2:13.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

15. Then went I up … by the brook—that is, Kedron.

and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned—the gate leading to the valley of Jehoshaphat, east of the city. He went out by this gate, and having made the circuit of the city, went in by it again [Barclay, City of the Great King].

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Nehemiah Inspects the Walls
…14Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass. 15Then 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. 16And the rulers knew not where 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 that did the work. …

John 18:1 When he had finished praying, Jesus left with his disciples and crossed the Kidron Valley. On the other side there was a garden, and he and his disciples went into it.
2 Chronicles 26:9 Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them.
Nehemiah 2:16 The officials did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any others who would be doing the work.