Ezra 10:16

Contemporary English Version 1995

Everyone else who had returned from exile agreed with the plan. So Ezra the priest chose men who were heads of the families, and he listed their names. They started looking into the matter on the first day of the tenth month,

Cross References

John 7:51

“Our Law doesn't let us condemn people before we hear what they have to say. We cannot judge them before we know what they have done.”

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I defended them in court, even if they were strangers.

Deuteronomy 13:14

You must carefully find out if the rumor is true. Then if the people of that town have actually done such a disgusting thing in your own country,

Ezra 10:15

Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah were the only ones who objected, except for the two Levites, Meshullam and Shabbethai.

Ezra 10:17

and they did not finish until the first day of the first month of the next year.

Deuteronomy 13:15

you must take your swords and kill every one of them, and their livestock too.