John Trapp on Nehemiah 7:5

Verſe 5. And my God put into my heart] Seeing how thinly the City was inhabited, and caſting in his mind, what evil might come of it, he bethinks himſelf (by a motion from Heaven) how to ſet things to rights: that the City might be better peopled, and (ſo) preſerved. This to do, God put into his heart by his holy Spirit (the ſweet motions whereof, are the ſound of his goings, the footſteps of his anointed, Pſal. 89.51.) We are not ſufficient of our ſelves (ſaith that great Apoſtle) to think any thing as of our ſelves: but our ſufficiency is of God, 2 Cor. 3.5. Nemo Vir magnus ſine aliquo afflatu Divino unquam fuit, ſaith Cicero: No man ever grew to be greatly good, without a Divine inſtinct.

To gather together the Nobles and the Rulers, &c.] That out of them a tenth man might be taken to furniſh out the City, chap. 11.1. after that they had been firſt prepared by the hearing of the Law, chap. 8.2.

That they might be reckoned by their genealogies] And ſo, Jeruſalem be inhabited again,Zach. 12, 6. in her own place, even in Jeruſalem.