~ answered before the king ~ 17_EST_01_16  And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that [are] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus. #, 27_DAN_02_10  The Chaldeans answered before the king, and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can show the king's matter, therefore [there is] no king, lord, nor ruler, [that] asked such things at any magician, or astrologer, or Chaldean. #,