Verse 16

So those who had come back did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain heads of families, by their fathers' families, all of them by their names, were marked out; and on the first day of the tenth month they took their places to go into the question with care.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 13:14 : 14 Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;
• Job 29:16 : 16 I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
• John 7:51 : 51 Is a man judged by our law before it has given him a hearing and has knowledge of what he has done?