Ezra 10:16

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men, heads of fathers' houses, according to their fathers' houses, 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 the son of Asahel and Jahzeiah the son of Tikvah opposed this, and Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite supported them.

Ezra 10:17

and 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 poor, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

John 7:51

“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently; and behold, if it be true and certain that such an abominable thing has been done among you,

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, destroying it utterly, all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.