Nehemiah 2:15
Good News Translation
so I went down into Kidron Valley and rode along, looking at the wall. Then I returned the way I had come and went back into the city through the Valley Gate.

New Revised Standard Version
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.

Contemporary English Version
So I went down to Kidron Valley and looked at the wall from there. Then before daylight I returned to the city through Valley Gate.

New American Bible
I continued on foot up the wadi by night, inspecting the wall all the while, until I once more reached the Valley Gate, by which I went back in.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the brook.

2 Samuel 15:23 And they all wept with a loud voice, and all the people passed over: the king also himself went over the brook Cedron, and all the people marched towards the way that looketh to the desert.

Jeremiah 31:38-40 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to the Lord from the tower of Hanameel even to the gate of the corner. . . .

John 18:1 When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples.

Nehemiah 2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, and before the dragon fountain, and to the dung gate, and I viewed the wall of Jerusalem which was broken down, and the gates thereof which were consumed with fire.

Context
Nehemiah Inspects the Walls
14And I passed to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's aqueduct, and there was no place for the beast on which I rode to pass. 15And 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.16But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.…
Cross References
John 18:1
When Jesus had said these things, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where there was a garden, into which he entered with his disciples.

2 Chronicles 26:9
And Ozias built towers in Jerusalem over the gate of the corner, and over the gate of the valley, and the rest, in the same side of the wall, and fortified them.

Nehemiah 2:16
But the magistrates knew not whither I went, or what I did: neither had I as yet told any thing to the Jews, or to the priests, or to the nobles, or to the magistrates, or to the rest that did the work.

Nehemiah 2:14
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