Ezra 10:16
The children of the captivity did so. Ezra the priest, [with] certain heads of fathers' [houses], after their fathers' houses, and all of them by their names, were set apart; and they sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
Deuteronomy 13:14
then you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
John 7:51
"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows 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 you shall inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is done in the midst of you,
Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. The cause of him who I didn't know, I searched out.
John 7:51
"Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him personally and knows what he does?"