Esther 1:13
¶Then the king said to the owise men, pwhich knew the times, (for so was the king's *manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
¶Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
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Jeremiah 10:7 Who would not fear thee, O King of nations? for to thee doth it appertain: forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations, and in all their kingdoms, there is none like unto thee.
Daniel 2:12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 2:13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain.
Matthew 2:1 Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
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1 Chronicles 12:32 And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.
*:
manner-custom, habit.
either,
1. The histories of former times, what princes have done in such cases as this was. Or,
2. Things done or to be done in time; what was just and fit to be done, or what was the law and judgment in these cases, as the following words explain it, and how and when things were to be done. See Poole "1Ch 12:32". Times are oft put in Scripture and other authors for the things done in them, by a common figure called a metonymy of the adjunct.
to wit, to consult with them in all matters of moment.