Ezra 10:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of families, according to their families, each of them designated by name. On the first day of the tenth month they sat down to examine the matter.

Cross References

Ezra 10:15

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

Ezra 10:17

By the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I championed the cause of the stranger.

John 7:51

“Our law does not judge people without first giving them a hearing to find out what they are doing, does it?”

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire and make a thorough investigation. If the charge is established that such an abhorrent thing has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall put the inhabitants of that town to the sword, utterly destroying it and everything in it, even putting its livestock to the sword.