Proverbs 21:1

The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.

Cross References (19)

  • Proverbs 16:9 (55)

    A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.

  • Ezra 6:22 (35)

    For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the he

  • Proverbs 20:24 (34)

    A man’s steps are from the LORD, so how can anyone understand his own way?

  • Acts 7:10 (30)

    and rescued him from all his troubles. He granted Joseph favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt, who app

  • Proverbs 16:1 (27)

    The plans of the heart belong to man, but the reply of the tongue is from the LORD.

  • Ezra 7:27–28 (26)

    Blessed be the LORD, the God of our fathers, who has put into the heart of the king to so honor the house of the LORD in

  • Daniel 4:35 (25)

    All the peoples of the earth are counted as nothing, and He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples o

  • Psalms 106:46 (21)

    He made them objects of compassion to all who held them captive.

  • Isaiah 43:19 (18)

    Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilde

  • Nehemiah 2:4 (17)

    “What is your request?” replied the king. So I prayed to the God of heaven

  • Nehemiah 1:11 (14)

    O Lord, may Your ear be attentive to my prayer and to the prayers of Your servants who delight to revere Your name. Give

  • Psalms 105:25 (12)

    whose hearts He turned to hate His people, to conspire against His servants.

  • Psalms 74:15 (10)

    You broke open the fountain and the flood; You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

  • Psalms 93:4 (6)

    Above the roar of many waters—the mighty breakers of the sea—the LORD on high is majestic.

  • Isaiah 44:27 (4)

    who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’

  • Revelation 16:4 (2)

    And the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and springs of water, and they turned to blood.

  • Revelation 16:12 (2)

    And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for

  • Psalms 114:3 (2)

    The sea observed and fled; the Jordan turned back;

  • Psalms 114:5 (1)

    Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,