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Proverbs 21:1

The lev melech is in the yad Hashem, as the channels of mayim; 1 He directeth it wherever He will. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 derech ish is yashar (right) in his own eynayim, 1 but Hashem weigheth the hearts. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 7:3And I will harden the lev Pharaoh, and multiply My Otot and My Mofetim in Eretz Mitzrayim.

Ezra 1:1Now in the first year + 1:1 539 B.C.E. of Koresh Melech Paras (Persia), that the Devar Hashem by the mouth of Yirmeyah might be fulfilled, Hashem stirred up the ruach of Koresh Melech Paras (Persia), so that he made a proclamation throughout all his Malchut, and put it also in writing, saying,

Ezra 6:22And kept the Chag Matzot seven days with simchah; for Hashem had made them joyful, and turned the lev Melech Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the Beis Elohim, Elohei Yisroel.

Nehemiah 1:11O Adonoi, let now Thine ear be attentive to the tefillah of Thy eved, and to the tefillah of Thy Avadim, who desire to fear Thy Shem; and give success to Thy eved today, and grant him rachamim in the sight of this man. For I was the Mashkeh l'Melech.

Nehemiah 2:8And an iggeret unto Asaph the Shomer of the forest of HaMelech, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the fortress by the Beis, and for the Chomat HaIr, and for the bais that I shall occupy. And HaMelech granted me, according to the Yad Elohai Hatovah upon me.

Psalms 74:15Thou didst break open the fountain and the flood; 1 Thou driedst up mighty naharot (rivers). 1

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