Proverbs 21:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

Proverbs 21:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps.
Proverbs 20:24
Man's goings are of the LORD; how can a man then understand his own way?
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 unto 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 favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
Proverbs 16:1
The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the LORD.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1)

Note, 1. Even the hearts of men are in God’s hand, and not only their goings, as he had said, Prov. 20:24. God can change men’s minds, can, by a powerful insensible operation under their spirits, turn them from that which they seemed most intent upon, and incline them to that which they seemed most averse to, as the husbandman, by canals and gutters, turns the water through his grounds as he pleas…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Pr 21:1-31. 1. rivers--irrigating channels (Psa 1:3), whose course was easily turned (compare De 11:10). God disposes even kings as He pleases (Pr 16:9; Psa 33:15).