Nehemiah 7:5

But God had given to my heart, and I gathered the nobles, and the magistrates, and the common people, so that I might enroll them. And I found a book of the census of those who first went up, and in it there was found written:

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In The King James Version

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,

In Context

4Now the city was great and very wide, and the people in its midst were few, and the houses were not yet built.

6These are the sons of the province, who ascended from the captivity of the transmigration, those whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had taken away, and who returned into Jerusalem and Judea, each one to his own city.

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Cross References

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

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

Nehemiah 7:64These sought their writing in the census, and they did not find it, and so they were cast out of the priesthood.

2 Corinthians 3:5It is not that we are adequate to think anything of ourselves, as if anything was from us. But our adequacy is from God.

Philippians 2:12And so, my most beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but even more so now in my absence: work toward your salvation with fear and trembling.

James 1:16And so, do not choose to go astray, my most beloved brothers.

Matthew Henry on Nehemiah 7:2-5

The Completion of the Wall. ( b. c. 445.) 1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were appointed, 2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God above many. 3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors, and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants… Read the whole commentary →

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