Nehemiah 7:5
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.]
Nehemiah 7:1
wall <02346> [the wall.]
positioned <05975> [I had set up.]
gatekeepers <07778> [the porters.]
Nehemiah 9:1
twenty-fourth <06242> [Now.]
On the first of this month was the feast of trumpets; on the tenth, the day of atonement; on the fourteenth began the feast of tabernacles, which lasted seven days, ending on the twenty- second; on the twenty-third, they separated themselves from their illegitimate wives; and on the twenty-fourth, they held a solemn day of fasting and confession of sin, and reading the law; the whole of which they closed by renewing their covenants.
twenty-fourth <06242> [twenty.]
month <02320> [of this month.]
Israelites <01121> [children.]
dust <0127> [earth.]
