Nehemiah 2:15 BSB — MannaFest

Nehemiah 2:15

so I went up the valley by night and inspected the wall. Then I headed back and reentered through the Valley Gate.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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, Neh 2:13.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

The brook - The Kidron watercourse, which skirted the city on the east. Turned back - i. e. he turned westward, and having made the circuit of the city, re-entered by the valley-gate.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

I went out by night by the gate of the valley--that is, the Jaffa gate, near the tower of Hippicus. even before the dragon well--that is, fountain on the opposite side of the valley. and to the dung port--the gate on the east of the city, through which there ran a common sewer to the brook Kedron and the valley of Hinnom.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וָאֱהִ֨י	va.'e.Hi	and I was	H1961 →
עֹלֶ֤ה	'o.Leh	going up	H5927 →
בַנַּ֙חַל֙	va.Na.chal	in the wadi	H5158 →
לַ֔יְלָה	Lay.lah	night	H3915 →
וָאֱהִ֥י	va.'e.Hi	and I was	H1961 →
שֹׂבֵ֖ר	so.Ver	examining	H7663 →
בַּחוֹמָ֑ה	ba.cho.Mah	<on> the wall	H2346 →
וָאָשׁ֗וּב	va.'a.Shuv	and I turned back	H7725 →
וָאָב֛וֹא	va.'a.Vo'	and I went	H935 →
בְּשַׁ֥עַר	be.Sha.'ar	in [the] gate of	H8179 →
הַגַּ֖יְא	ha.Gay'	the valley	H1516 →
וָאָשֽׁוּב׃	va.'a.Shuv	and I returned	H7725 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 18:1
After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 15:23
  Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
- Mark 14:32
  Then they came to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus told His disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
- Matthew 26:36
  At that time Jesus went with His disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and He told them, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”
- John 18:26
  One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”
- Luke 22:39–40
  Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed Him.
Through
2 Samuel 15:23
Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
leads to
- 2 Samuel 16:2
  “Why do you have these?” asked the king. Ziba replied, “The donkeys are for the king’s household to ride, the bread and summer fruit are for the young men to eat, and the wine…
- 1 Kings 2:37
  On the day you go out and cross the Kidron Valley, know for sure that you will die; your blood will be on your own head.”
- John 18:1
  After Jesus had spoken these words, He went out with His disciples across the Kidron Valley, where they entered a garden.

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