Ezra 10:16

The English Standar Version

Then the returned exiles did so. Ezra the priest selected men,[2] 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

John 7:51

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

Job 29:16

I was a father to the needy, and I searched out the cause of him whom I did not know.

Deuteronomy 13:14

then you shall inquire and make search and ask diligently. And behold, if it be true and certain that such an abomination has been done among you,

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.

Deuteronomy 13:15

you shall surely put the inhabitants of that city to the sword, devoting it to destruction,[3] all who are in it and its cattle, with the edge of the sword.