# General Information:

A few men accompanied Nehemiah, but he speaks in the first person because he was the primary person. 

# I went out by night by the Valley Gate

"At night, I went out through the Valley Gate"

# Jackal's Well

"Dragon's Well". A jackal is a wild dog. 

# Dung Gate

Presumably, refuse was removed from the city through this gate.

# which had been broken open, and the wooden gates were destroyed by fire

"which Israel's enemies had broken open, and the wooden gates which their enemies had destroyed with fire"