Proverbs 21:1

American King James Version (1999)

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turns it wherever he will.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:33

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

Ezra 1:1

Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Ezra 1:2

Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he has charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.

Ezra 6:22

And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the LORD had made them joyful, and 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.

Nehemiah 1:11

O LORD, I beseech you, let now your ear be attentive to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who desire to fear your name: and prosper, I pray you, your servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. For I was the king's cupbearer.

Nehemiah 2:4

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

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 palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God on me.

Esther 2:17

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

Psalm 105:25

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

Psalm 106:46

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

Psalm 114:3

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

Psalm 114:5

What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?

Psalm 74:15

You did split the fountain and the flood: you dried up mighty rivers.

Psalm 93:4

The LORD on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yes, than the mighty waves of the sea.

Exodus 7:3

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

Proverbs 16:1

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

Proverbs 16:9

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

Proverbs 20:24

Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?

Isaiah 43:19

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

Isaiah 44:27

That said to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up your rivers:

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 you.

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 do you?

Acts 7:10

And delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Revelation 16:12

And the sixth angel poured out his vial on the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

Revelation 16:4

And the third angel poured out his vial on the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.