Proverbs 21:1

New King James Version

The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.

Cross References

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his way, But the Lord directs his steps.

Proverbs 20:24

A man’s steps are of the Lord; How then can a man understand his own way?

Ezra 6:22

And they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread seven days with joy; for the Lord made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward 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 troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Proverbs 16:1

The preparations of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Daniel 4:35

All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, “What have You done?”

Psalm 106:46

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

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 road 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, “What do you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.

Nehemiah 1:11

O Lord, I pray, please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant, and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name; and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” For I was the king’s cupbearer.

Psalm 74:15

You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up mighty rivers.

Isaiah 44:27

Who says to the deep, ‘Be dry! And I will dry up your rivers’;

Psalm 93:4

The Lord on high is mightier Than the noise of many waters, Than the mighty waves of the sea.

Revelation 16:12

Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.

Revelation 16:4

Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.

Psalm 114:5

What ails you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back?

Psalm 114:3

The sea saw it and fled; Jordan turned back.

Jeremiah 39:12

“Take him and look after him, and do him no harm; but do to him just as he says to you.”

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 into this city,’ Says 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, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,

Ezra 1:2

Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.

Nehemiah 2:8

and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he must give me timber to make beams for the gates of the citadel which pertains to the temple, for the city wall, and for the house that I will occupy.” And the king granted them to me according to the good hand of my God upon me.

Esther 2:17

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