I continued up the valley during the night, inspecting the wall. Then I turned back and came to the Valley Gate, and so returned.

You guided them with a pillar of cloud by day and with a pillar of fire by night to illumine for them the path they were to travel.

I got up during the night, along with a few men who were with me. But I did not tell anyone what my God was putting on my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no animals with me, except for the one I was riding.

I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons and the Dung Gate, inspecting the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire.