So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation, Cross References Ezra 10:15 (Only Jonathan son of Asahel and Jahzeiah son of Tikvah, supported by Meshullam and Shabbethai the Levite, opposed this plan.) Ezra 10:17 and by the first day of the first month they had dealt with all the men who had married foreign women. Treasury of Scripture And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter. to examine the matter Deuteronomy 13:14 Job 29:16 John 7:51 |
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