Nehemiah 7:5
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But God had put in my heart, and I assembled the princes and magistrates, and common people, to number them: and I found a book of the number of them who came up at first and therein it was found written:

my God

Nehemiah 5:19 Remember me, O my God, for good according to all that I have done for this people.

Nehemiah 6:14 Remember me, O Lord, for Tobias and Sanaballat, according to their works of this kind: and Noadias the prophet, and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.

put into mine

Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the Lord the God of our fathers, who hath put this in the king's heart, to glorify the house of the Lord, which is in Jerusalem,

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God, I am what I am. And his grace in me hath not been void: but I have laboured more abundantly than all they. Yet not I, but the grace of God with me:

2 Corinthians 3:5 Not that we are sufficient to think any thing of ourselves, as of ourselves: but our sufficiency is from God.

2 Corinthians 8:16 And thanks be to God, who hath given the same carefulness for you in the heart of Titus.

Philippians 2:12,13 Wherefore, my dearly beloved, (as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only but much more now in my absence) with fear and trembling work out your salvation. . . .

Colossians 1:29 Wherein also I labour, striving according to his working which he worketh in me in power.

James 1:16 Do not err, therefore, my dearest brethren.

(Whatever good motion is in our minds, whether prudent or pious, we must acknowledge it to come from God; for every good gift and every good work are from above; he gives knowledge, he gives grace. What is commonly called human prudence, ought to be ascribed to the direction of Divine Providence. He who teaches the husbandman discretion, Is.

28:26, as certainly over-rules the deliberations of senators.)

that

Nehemiah 7:64 These sought their writing in the record, and found it not: and they were cast out of the priesthood.

1 Chronicles 9:1 And all Israel was numbered: and the sum of them was written in the book of the kings of Israel, and Juda: and they were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.

Ezra 2:62 These sought the writing of their genealogy, and found it not, and they were cast out of the priesthood.

Context
The List of Returning Exiles
4And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built. 5But God had put in my heart, and I assembled the princes and magistrates, and common people, to number them: and I found a book of the number of them who came up at first and therein it was found written:6These are the children of the province, who came up from the captivity of them that had been carried away, whom Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon had carried away, and who returned into Judea, every one into his own city.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 7:4
And the city was very wide and great, and the people few in the midst thereof, and the houses were not built.

Proverbs 2:6
He wilt keep the salvation of the righteous, and protect them that walk in simplicity,

Proverbs 3:6
Be not wise in thy own conceit: fear God, and depart from evil:

Lexicon
Then my God
אֱלֹהַי֙ (’ĕ·lō·hay)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

put
וַיִּתֵּ֤ן (way·yit·tên)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5414: To give, put, set

into
אֶל־ (’el-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 413: Near, with, among, to

my heart
לִבִּ֔י (lib·bî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre

to assemble
וָאֶקְבְּצָ֞ה (wā·’eq·bə·ṣāh)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6908: To gather, collect

the nobles,
הַחֹרִ֧ים (ha·ḥō·rîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 2715: White, pure, noble

the officials,
הַסְּגָנִ֛ים (has·sə·ḡā·nîm)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5461: A prefect of a, province

and the people
הָעָ֖ם (hā·‘ām)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

to be enrolled by genealogy.
לְהִתְיַחֵ֑שׂ (lə·hiṯ·ya·ḥêś)
Preposition-l | Verb - Hitpael - Infinitive construct
Strong's Hebrew 3187: To enroll oneself or be enrolled by genealogy

I found
וָֽאֶמְצָ֗א (wā·’em·ṣā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

the genealogical
הַיַּ֙חַשׂ֙ (hay·ya·ḥaś)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3188: A pedigree, family list

register
סֵ֤פֶר (sê·p̄er)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5612: A missive, document, writing, book

of those who had first returned,
הָעוֹלִ֣ים (hā·‘ō·w·lîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

and I found
וָאֶמְצָ֖א (wā·’em·ṣā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

the following written
כָּת֥וּב (kā·ṯūḇ)
Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3789: To grave, to write

in it:
בּֽוֹ׃ (bōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew


Additional Translations
Then my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written therein,

And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them that came up at the first, and I found written therein:

And God put it into my heart, and I gathered the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, into companies: and I found a register of the company that came up first, and I found written in it as follows:

And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, for registration by genealogy. And I found a genealogical register of those that had come up at the first, and I found written in it:

And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and I found written therein:

And my God put into my heart to assemble the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them who came up at the first, and found written in it,

My God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written therein:

and my God putteth it unto my heart, and I gather the freeman, and the prefects, and the people, for the genealogy, and I find a book of the genealogy of those coming up at the beginning, and I find written in it: --
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