Nehemiah 2:14
12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem: neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire.
Then 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.
15 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.
16 And the rulers knew not whither 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.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to get through;
- KJV
- Then 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.
- WEB
- Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.
- ASV
- Then I went on to the fountain gate and to the king`s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
- DARBY
- And I went on to the fountain-gate, and to the king's pool; and there was no place for the beast under me to pass.
- BLB
- And I went on to the Gate of the Fountain and to the Pool of the King, and [there was] no place for the beast under me to pass over.
- ÅB
- Så tok jeg over til Kildeporten og til Kongedammen; men der var det ikke rom for dyret som jeg red på, til å komme fram.
- OTB
- Så dro jeg videre mot Kildeporten og Kongens dam, men det var ikke plass for mitt ridedyr til å passere.
- B1930
- Så tok jeg over til Kildeporten og til Kongedammen; men der var det ikke rum for dyret som jeg red på, til å komme frem.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Nehemiah 3:15
But the gate of the fountain repaired Shallun the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of part of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Siloah by the king’s garden, and unto the stairs that go down from the city of David.
Read in context2 Kings 20:20
And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah, and all his might, and how he made a pool, and a conduit, and brought water into the city, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Read in context2 Chronicles 32:30
This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
Read in context2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rabsaris and Rab-shakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great host against Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.
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