9. 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.
10. When Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard this, it distressed them exceedingly that a man had come to inquire for and require the good and prosperity of the Israelites.
11. So I came to Jerusalem and had been there three days.
12. Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do for Jerusalem. No beast was with me except the one I rode.