Ezra 10:16

New International Version

So the exiles did as was proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, one from each family division, and all of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to investigate the cases,

Cross References

Ezra 10:15

Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this.

Ezra 10:17

and by the first day of the first month they finished dealing with all the men who had married foreign women.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy; I took up the case of the stranger.

John 7:51

“Does our law condemn a man without first hearing him to find out what he has been doing?”

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock.