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Thai King James Bible

เอศ​เธ​ระ 1:13

ฝ่ายกษัตริย์จึงตรัสกับคนที่มีปัญญาผู้ทราบกาละ (เพราะนี่เป็นวิธีดำเนินการของกษัตริย์ต่อบรรดาผู้ที่เจนจัดในกฎหมายและการพิพากษา

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Babylon;   Chamberlain;   Divorce;   Family;   Husband;   Persia;   Queen;   Vashti;   Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Wisdom-Folly;   Wise;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Medo-Persian Kingdom;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Chamberlain;   Shushan;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Marsena;   Memucan;   Meres;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Esther;   Marsena;   Shethar;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Chamberlain;   Prince, Princess;   Vashti ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Vashti;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wise-Men;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esther Rabbah;   Issachar, Tribe of;   Koran;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 4;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the wise: Jeremiah 10:7, Daniel 2:2, Daniel 2:12, Daniel 2:27, Daniel 4:6, Daniel 4:7, Daniel 5:7, Matthew 2:1

knew: 1 Chronicles 12:32, Matthew 16:3

Reciprocal: Daniel 2:21 - he changeth

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the king said to the wise men that knew the times,.... Astrologers, as Aben Ezra, that knew the fit time for doing anything; or that had knowledge of ancient times, historians, well read in history, and knew things that had happened similar to this:

for so was the king's manner towards all that knew law and judgment; it was customary with him in any case of difficulty to have the opinion and advice of those that were expert in the law, and well understood right and wrong. These are called by Herodotus t the king's judges.

t Thalia, sive, l. 3. c. 14, 31. so in Aelian. Var. Hist. l. 1. c. 34.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Wise men ... - Not “astrologers,” who were unknown in Persia; but rather men of practical wisdom, who knew the facts and customs of former times.

For so was the king’s manner - Some render it: “for so was the king’s business laid before all that knew law ...”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 13. To the wise men — Probably the lawyers.


 
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