Ezra 10:16
The {returned exiles} did so. Ezra the priest selected men, the heads of the {families} according to the house of their fathers, all of them by name. They sat down to examine the matter on the first day of the tenth month.
Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall inquire and examine and interrogate thoroughly, and, look! [It is] true; the thing has actually been done, this detestable thing in your midst,
Job 29:16
I [was] a father to the poor, and I investigated {the stranger's} legal dispute.
John 7:51
"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is 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
then you shall inquire and examine and interrogate thoroughly, and, look! [It is] true; the thing has actually been done, this detestable thing in your midst,
Job 29:16
I [was] a father to the poor, and I investigated {the stranger's} legal dispute.
John 7:51
"Our law does not condemn a man unless it first hears from him and knows what he is doing, [does it]?"