Ezra 10:16
And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest and certain of the chief fathers were separated according to their fathers' houses, and all of them expressed by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Deuteronomy 13:14
then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and if it be truth, and the thing be certain, that this abomination hath happened in the midst of thee,
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
John 7:51
Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does?
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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 shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and if it be truth, and the thing be certain, that this abomination hath happened in the midst of thee,
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy, and the cause which I knew not I searched out;
John 7:51
Does our law judge a man before it have first heard from himself, and know what he does?