Nehemiah 7:4-5
spread .... large <01419 07342> [large and great. Heb. broad in spaces. the houses.]
God <0430> [my God.]
placed ..... heart <05414 03820> [put into mine.]
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.
enrolled on the basis of genealogy <03187> [that.]
