And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Diviners, or fortune-tellers.
Wise men. Septuagint, "philosophers. "(Calmet)
Hebrew Asha him, may come from the Greek sop hoi. (Grotius)
They had been educated three years, ver. 5. (Haydock)