Nehemiah 7:5
 Nehemiah 7:5 
New International Version (© 2011)
So my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families. I found the genealogical record of those who had been the first to return. This is what I found written there:

King James Bible
And my God put into mine 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,

American Standard Version
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:

Young's Literal Translation
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: --

Nehemiah 7:5 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

God put into mine heart - With this good man every good thing was of God. If he purposed any good, it was because God put it into his heart; if he did any good, it was because the good hand of his God was upon him; if he expected any good, it was because he earnestly prayed God to remember him for good. Thus, in all his ways he acknowledged God, and God directed all his steps.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

my God

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

Nehemiah 6:14 My God, think you on Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets...

put into mine

Ezra 7:27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which has put such a thing as this in the king's heart...

1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed on me was not in vain...

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

2 Corinthians 8:16 But thanks be to God, which put the same earnest care into the heart of Titus for you.

Philippians 2:12,13 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence...

Colossians 1:29 Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

James 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.

(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 register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted...

1 Chronicles 9:1 So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah...

Ezra 2:62 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted...

Nehemiah 7:5 Parallel Commentaries
Assemble Book Chiefs Common Enrolled Families First Following Found Gather Genealogical Genealogies Genealogy Heart Listed Mind Nobles Officials Reckoned Record Register Registration Rulers Therein Together Written
Assemble Book Chiefs Common Enrolled Families First Following Found Gather Genealogical Genealogies Genealogy Heart Listed Mind Nobles Officials Reckoned Record Register Registration Rulers Therein Together Written
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Nehemiah 7:4 Now the city was large and spacious, but there were few people in it, and the houses had not yet been rebuilt.
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Proverbs 3:6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.