Proverbs 21:1

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.

Cross References

2 Kings 19:33

By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come unto this city, saith 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 accomplished, 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 saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD, the God of heaven, given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in 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 had turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

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 prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man. (Now I was cupbearer to the king.)

Nehemiah 2:4

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

Nehemiah 2:8

and a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertaineth 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 upon me.

Esther 2:17

And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour 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.

Psalm 105:25

He turned their heart to hate his people, To deal subtilly 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 aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?

Psalm 74:15

Thou didst cleave fountain and flood: Thou driedst up mighty rivers.

Psalm 93:4

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

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 belong to man: But the answer of the tongue is from the LORD.

Proverbs 16:9

A man's heart deviseth his way: But the LORD directeth his steps.

Proverbs 20:24

A man's goings are of the LORD; How then can man understand his way?

Isaiah 43:19

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

Isaiah 44:27

that saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

Jeremiah 39:12

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

Daniel 4:35

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

Acts 7:10

and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.

Revelation 16:12

And the sixth poured out his bowl upon the great river, the river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way might be made ready for the kings that come from the sunrising.

Revelation 16:4

And the third poured out his bowl into the rivers and the fountains of the waters; and it became blood.