“Then I went on to the spring gate and to the king’s pool, but there was no place for the animal that was under me to pass.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Nehemiah 2 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.