10. But when Sanballat the Horonite and the Ammonite servant Tobiah heard this, they were greatly displeased that a person had come to seek the welfare of the Israelites.
11. I came to Jerusalem and was there for three days.
12. I got up during the night, I and a few men with me. I did not tell anybody what my God put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No animal was with me except the animal that I was riding on.
13. I went out during the night at the gate of the valley by the Dragon spring and to the Dung Gate. And I examined the walls in Jerusalem and its gates that had been destroyed by the fire.
14. I crossed over to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no place for my mount to cross over.
15. So I went up by the valley during the night and was examining the wall. Then I returned and came to the Valley Gate and returned.
16. The prefects did not know where I had gone and what I was doing. I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the prefects, and the rest of the workers.