Ezra 10:16

New Century Version

So the returned captives did what was suggested. Ezra the priest chose men who were leaders of the family groups and named one from each family division. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to study each case.

Cross References

Ezra 10:15

Only Jonathan son of Asahel, Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, Meshullam, and Shabbethai the Levite were against the plan.

Ezra 10:17

By the first day of the first month, they had finished with all the men who had married non-Jewish women.

Job 29:16

I was like a father to needy people, and I took the side of strangers who were in trouble.

John 7:51

“Our law does not judge a person without hearing him and knowing what he has done.”

Deuteronomy 13:14

Then you must ask about it, looking into the matter and checking carefully whether it is true. If it is proved that a hateful thing has happened among you,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you must kill with a sword everyone who lives in that city. Destroy the city completely and kill everyone in it, as well as the animals, with a sword.