Ezra 10:16

New King James Version

Then the descendants of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of the fathers’ households, were set apart by the fathers’ households, each of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.

Cross References

Ezra 10:15

Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite gave them support.

Ezra 10:17

By the first day of the first month they finished questioning all the men who had taken pagan wives.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the poor, And I searched out the case that I did not know.

John 7:51

“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire, search out, and ask diligently. And if it is indeed true and certain that such an abomination was committed among you,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying it, all that is in it and its livestock—with the edge of the sword.