Nehemiah 2:11

So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days.

So I came to Jerusalem, and was there three days. Deeply affected with the desolations of Jerusalem, and uncertain what course to follow, he remained three days before informing any one of the object of his mission, and at the end of the third day, accompanied with a few attendants, he made, under covert of night, a secret survey of the walls and gates.