Ezra 10:16
So those who had come back did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of families, by their fathers' families, all of them by their names, were marked out; and on the first day of the tenth month they took their places to go into the question with care.
Deuteronomy 13:14
Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
John 7:51
Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?
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Summary
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 let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;
Job 29:16
I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
John 7:51
Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?