Proverbs 21:1

The king's heart is in the Lord's hand, directed wherever he wills. It matters because God sovereignly rules even the most powerful human rulers.

Cross-references · 19

• Prov 16:9A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
• Ezra 6:22and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because Yahweh had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house.
• Prov 20:24A man’s steps are from Yahweh; how then can man understand his way?
• Acts 7:10and delivered him out of all his afflictions, and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He made him governor over Egypt and all his house.
• Prov 16:1The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from Yahweh.
• Ezra 7:27–28Blessed be Yahweh, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to beautify Yahweh’s house which is in Jerusalem;
• Dan 4:35All 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 no one can stop his hand, or ask him, What are you doing?
• Ps 106:46He made them also to be pitied by all those who carried them captive.
• Isa 43:19Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs out now. Don’t you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
• Neh 2:4Then the king said to me, “What is your request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
• Neh 1:11Lord, I beg you, let your ear be attentive now to the prayer of your servant, and to the prayer of your servants, who delight to fear your name; and please prosper your servant today, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man.” Now I was cup bearer to the king.
• Ps 105:25He turned their heart to hate his people, to conspire against his servants.
• Ps 74:15You opened up spring and stream. You dried up mighty rivers.
• Ps 93:4Above the voices of many waters, the mighty breakers of the sea, Yahweh on high is mighty.
• Isa 44:27who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’
• Rev 16:4The third poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood.
• Ps 114:3The sea saw it, and fled. The Jordan was driven back.
• Rev 16:12The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.
• Ps 114:5What was it, you sea, that you fled? You Jordan, that you turned back?

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