OLD TESTAMENT

Daniel 1:20

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In every matter of wisdom and understanding concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

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Verse 20. Diviners, or fortune-tellers.—Wise men. Septuagint “philosophers.” Calmet.—Hebrew Ashaphim, may come from the Greek sophoi. Grot.—They had been educated three years. verse 5. Bible.

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