Nehemiah 7:5 (KJV)

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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

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my God. Ne 5:19 Ne 6:14

put into mine. Ezr 7:27 1Co 15:10 2Co 3:5 2Co 8:16 Php 2:12 Php 2:13 Col 1:29 Jas 1:16

that. Ne 7:64 1Ch 9:1-9 Ezr 2:62

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

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