This time the inference to the night is connected not to secrecy but to the danger the investigations involved for Nehemiah (and those with him). We well understand that scrambling up loose stone (broken bits of wall) in the dark comes with risk.
This time the inference to the night is connected not to secrecy but to the danger the investigations involved for Nehemiah (and those with him). We well understand that scrambling up loose stone (broken bits of wall) in the dark comes with risk.
15 Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.