Proverbs 21:1

A Conservative Version

The king's heart is in the hand of LORD as the watercourses. He turns it wherever he will.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:9

A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.

Proverbs 20:24

A man's goings are of LORD, how then can man understand his way?

Ezra 6:22

and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy. For LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Acts 7:10

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And he appointed him governor over Egypt and his entire house.

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from LORD.

Daniel 4:35

And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing, and he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth. And none can stay his hand, or say to him, What are thou doing?

Psalm 106:46

He also made them to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth. Shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Psalm 105:25

He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.

Nehemiah 2:4

Then the king said to me, For what do thou make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 1:11

O LORD, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who delight to fear thy name, and, I pray thee, prosper thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight

Psalm 74:15

Thou split fountain and flood. Thou dried up mighty rivers.

Isaiah 44:27

who says to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers,

Psalm 93:4

Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, LORD on high is mighty.

Revelation 16:12

And the sixth agent poured out his bowl upon the great river Euphrates, and the water of it was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the sun-rising might be prepared.

Revelation 16:4

And the third agent poured out his bowl into the rivers and into the springs of the waters, and they became blood.

Psalm 114:5

What ails thee, O thou sea, that thou flee? Thou Jordan, that thou turn back?

Psalm 114:3

The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.

Jeremiah 39:12

Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm, but do to him even as he shall say to thee.

Exodus 7:3

And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

2 Kings 19:33

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says LORD.

Ezra 1:1

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and

Ezra 1:2

Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth has LORD, the God of heaven, given me, and he has charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Nehemiah 2:8

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And

Esther 2:17

And the king loved Esther above all the women. And she obtained favor and kindness in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.