Ezra 10:16
And the children of the captivity did even so. And Ezra the priest, and the ancient heads through the house of their fathers, and all that were now rehearsed by name, separated themselves; and sat them down on the first day of the tenth month to examine this matter.
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true, and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you:
Job 29:16
I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.
John 7:51
"Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him and know what he hath done?"
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And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
To examine the matter
Bible References
To examine the matter
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then seek and make search and enquire diligently. If it be true, and the thing of a surety that such abomination is wrought among you:
Job 29:16
I was a father unto the poor, and when I knew not their cause, I sought it out diligently.
John 7:51
"Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him and know what he hath done?"