11 I stayed at Jerusalem for three days.

12 I got up in the night and took a small band of men with me. I said nothing to any man of what God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem, I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.

13 I went in the dark through the gateway of the valley past the Fountain of the Snake Serpents Well as far as the place where waste material was stored. From there I viewed the broken down walls of Jerusalem and the gateways that were burned with fire.

14 Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.

15 Then in the night I went up by the stream, viewed the wall and then turned back. I went in by the valley gate.

16 The chiefs had no knowledge of where I had been or what I was doing. I had not then said anything to the Jews or to the priests or the great ones or the chiefs or the rest of those who were doing the work.