Nehemiah 7:5
Good News Translation
God inspired me to assemble the people and their leaders and officials and to check their family records. I located the records of those who had first returned from captivity, and this is the information I found:

New Revised Standard Version
Then my God put it into my mind to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who were the first to come back, and I found the following written in it:

New American Bible
When my God had inspired me to gather together the nobles, the magistrates, and the people, and to examine their family records, I came upon the family list of those who had returned in the earliest period. There I found the following written:

Douay-Rheims Bible
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:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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:

Nehemiah 7:4
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