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Proverbs 21:1

The king's heart is in the hand of LORD as the watercourses. He turns it wherever he will.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but LORD weighs the hearts.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:3And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.

Ezra 1:1Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and

Ezra 6:22and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy. For LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel.

Nehemiah 1:11O 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, I pray thee, prosper thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight

Nehemiah 2:8and a letter to Asaph the keeper of the king's forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the castle which appertains to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And

Psalms 74:15Thou split fountain and flood. Thou dried up mighty rivers.

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