Nehemiah 2:12-14

New Catholic Bible

¹² Then I set out by night with just a few other men. I revealed to no one what my God had inspired me to do for Jerusalem, and I took no animal with me other than the one I was riding.

¹³ I went forth by night through the Valley Gate toward the Dragon Spring as far as the Dung Gate, and I observed how the walls of Jerusalem lay in ruins with its gates destroyed by fire. ¹⁴ I then passed over to the Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was no room there for the animal I was riding to continue.