Ezra 10:16

The exiles did what had been proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family leaders, all identified by name, to represent their ancestral houses. They convened on the first day of the tenth month to investigate the matter,

Deuteronomy 13:14

you are to inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened among you,

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy,
and I examined the case of the stranger.

John 7:51

“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

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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
you are to inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. If the report turns out to be true that this detestable thing has happened among you,
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy,
and I examined the case of the stranger.
John 7:51
“Our law doesn’t judge a man before it hears from him and knows what he’s doing, does it?”

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