16:002:006 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,)
           For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? 
           So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

16:002:007 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let
           letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that
           they may convey me over till I come into Judah;

16:002:008 And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that
           he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the
           palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the
           city, and for the house that I shall enter into.  And the king
           granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.

16:002:009 Then I came to the governors beyond the river, and gave them
           the king’s letters.  Now the king had sent captains of the army
           and horsemen with me.

16:002:010 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the
           Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there
           was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

16:002:011 So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

16:002:012 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.

16:002:013 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.

16:002:014 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.

16:002:015 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.

16:002:016 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.

16:002:017 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how
           Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with
           fire:  come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we
           be no more a reproach.

16:002:018 Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me;
           as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me.  And they
           said, Let us rise up and build.  So they strengthened their
           hands for this good work.