Ezra 10:8

8and that if anyone did not come within three days, by order of the officials and the elders all his property should be forfeited, and he himself banned from the congregation of the exiles.

Jeremiah 26:10

10When athe officials of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of the Lord and took their seat in the bentry of the New Gate of the house of the Lord.

Jeremiah 26:16

Jeremiah Spared from Death

16 cThen the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, dThis man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”
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