Ezra 10:16

So those who had come back did so. Ezra the priest, with certain heads of families, by their fathers' families, all of them by their names, were marked out. On the first day of the tenth month they took their places to go into the question with care.

Deuteronomy 13:14

Investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy! I championed the cause of the stranger.

John 7:51

Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to find out 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
Investigate and search out and inquire thoroughly. If it is true and the matter established that this abomination has been done among you,
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy! I championed the cause of the stranger.
John 7:51
Does our law convict a man without first hearing from him to find out what he has done?