'Asked' in the Bible

The Chaldeans answered before the king and said, There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the king's matter; therefore there is no king, however great and powerful, that hath asked such a thing of any scribe, or magician, or Chaldean.

I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the certainty of all this. And he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things: