Proverbs 21:1

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The king’s heart is like streams of water. Both are under the Lord’s control. He turns them in any direction he chooses.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:33

He will go back the way he came, and he won’t come into this city,” declares the Lord of Armies.

Ezra 1:1

The promise the Lord had spoken through Jeremiah was about to come true in Cyrus’ first year as king of Persia. The Lord inspired the king to make this announcement throughout his whole kingdom and then to put it in writing.

Ezra 1:2

This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: The Lord God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the world. Then he ordered me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem (which is in Judah).

Ezra 6:22

So for seven days they celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread because the Lord had made them joyful. The Lord had made the king of Assyria change his mind so that he supported the people in their work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 1:11

Lord, please pay attention to my prayer and to the prayers of all your other servants who want to worship your name. Please give me success today and make this man, King Artaxerxes, show me compassion.” I was cupbearer  to the king at this time.

Nehemiah 2:4

“What do you want?” the king asked me. So I prayed to the God of heaven,

Nehemiah 2:8

Also, let me have a letter addressed to Asaph, the supervisor of Your Majesty’s forest. In the letter order him to give me wood for the gates of the fortress near the temple, for the city wall, and for the house I’ll move into.” (The king let me have the letters, because God was guiding me.)

Esther 2:17

Now, the king loved Esther more than all the other women and favored her over all the other virgins. So he put the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Psalm 105:25

He changed their minds so that they hated his people, and they dealt treacherously with his servants.

Psalm 106:46

He let them find compassion from all those who held them captive.

Psalm 114:3

The Red Sea looked at this and ran away. The Jordan River turned back.

Psalm 114:5

Red Sea, why did you run away? Jordan River, what made you turn back?

Psalm 74:15

You opened the springs and brooks. You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Psalm 93:4

The Lord above is mighty— mightier than the sound of raging water, mightier than the foaming waves of the sea.

Exodus 7:3

But I will make Pharaoh stubborn. Even though I will do many miraculous signs and amazing things in Egypt,

Proverbs 16:1

The plans of the heart belong to humans, but an answer on the tongue comes from the Lord.

Proverbs 16:9

A person may plan his own journey, but the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 20:24

The Lord is the one who directs a person’s steps. How then can anyone understand his own way?

Isaiah 43:19

I am going to do something new. It is already happening. Don’t you recognize it? I will clear a way in the desert. I will make rivers on dry land.

Isaiah 44:27

He says to the deep water, “Dry up.” So I will dry up your rivers.

Jeremiah 39:12

“Take him, and look after him. Don’t harm him in any way, but do for him whatever he asks.”

Daniel 4:35

Everyone who lives on earth is nothing compared to him. He does whatever he wishes with the army of heaven and with those who live on earth. There is no one who can oppose him or ask him, “What are you doing?”

Acts 7:10

and rescued him from all his suffering. When Joseph stood in the presence of Pharaoh (the king of Egypt), God gave Joseph divine favor  and wisdom so that he became ruler of Egypt and of Pharaoh’s whole palace.

Revelation 16:12

The sixth angel poured his bowl on the great Euphrates River. The water in the river dried up to make a road for the kings from the east.

Revelation 16:4

The third angel poured his bowl over the rivers and the springs. They turned into blood.