16And 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.
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Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
Then shalt thou enquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought among you;
I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-44)The method of proceeding in this matter being concluded on, and the congregation dismissed, that each in his respective place might gain and give intelligence to facilitate the matter, we are here told, 1. Who were the persons that undertook to manage the matter and bring the causes regularly before the commissioners— Jonathan and Jahaziah , two active men, whether of the priests or of the people…
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