'Former' in the Bible

(In former time in Israel, when a man went to ask counsel of God, he said, Come and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was in former time called a Seer.)

And he turned from him toward another, and spake after the same manner: and the people answered him again after the former manner.

David's two wives, Ahinoam from Jezreel and Abigail, Nabal's former wife, had been captured.