v1 A king is like a canal that God controls.
God leads the king in the way that God decides.
v2 A man supposes that all his actions are right.
But God knows the man’s secret thoughts.
v3 Do the things that are right and fair!
This matters more to God than any gift.
CHAPTER XXI _The king's heart is in the hand of God. We should practise_ _mercy and justice. The lying tongue. The quarrelsome woman._ _The punishment of the wicked. The uncharitable. The private_...
RIVERS OF WATER - See the Psalms 1:3 note. As the cultivator directs the stream into the channels where it is most wanted, so Yahweh directs the thoughts of the true king, that his favors may fall, no...
CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCT In the proverbs of this chapter the Lord is mentioned five times. “The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: He turne...
PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys of Palestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia, which could be diverted in any direction at will. Proverbs 21:4....
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. THE RIVERS OF WATER. Hebrew. _palgey mayim_. the divisions of water [in. garden], from _palag,_ to divide (Genesis 10:25). The name given to the small channels whic...
_rivers_ Lit. STREAMS, or CHANNELS OF WATER _is_ THE HEART OF A KING IN THE HAND OF JEHOVAH. The comparison is drawn from artificial irrigation. The irrigator has complete control over the water suppl...
THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD— The author of the _Observations_ informs us, that in Judea their watering canals are artificially divided into several small streams, which render the coun...
CHAPTER 21 TEXT Proverbs 21:1-10 1. The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the water courses: He turneth it whithersoever he will. 2. Every way of a man is right in his own eyes; But Jeho...
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. THE KING'S HEART (IS) IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, (AS) THE RIVERS OF WATER: HE TURNETH IT WHER...
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of Egypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
XXI. (1) AS THE RIVERS OF WATER. — Channels for irrigation (comp. Psalms 1:3). He turns the heart of the king, whose favour is as the latter rain (Proverbs 16:15) and dew (Proverbs 19:12), now towards...
פַּלְגֵי ־מַ֣יִם לֶב ־מֶ֭לֶךְ בְּ יַד ־יְהוָ֑
CHAPTER 22 WINE "He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17 THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the proverb in...
Verse Proverbs 21:4. The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Where that is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proud heart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man to f...
The (a) king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it wherever he will. (a) Though kings seem to have all things at commandment, they are not able to bring their...
_It. Though it be free, and may resist grace or embrace virtue, Isaias xlv. 22., Jeremias iii. 14., and vii. 3., and Josue xxiv. 23. (Calmet) --- Yet God knows how to turn the heart even of a king, so...
The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. There can be no question but that all hearts, and all the ways of men are, like the current of...
_DOMINUS DIRIGIT COR_ ‘The King’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: He turneth it whithersoever He will.’ Proverbs 21:1 The analogy which Solomon saw between the king’s hear...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
THE KING'S HEART [IS] IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, [AS] THE RIVERS OF WATER,.... The heart of every king, and all that is in it, his thoughts, counsels, purposes, and designs; the hearts of bad kings, as...
The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will. Ver. 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord.] Be kings never so absolute and unac...
_The king's heart_ His very inward purposes and inclinations, which seem to be most in a man's own power, and out of the reach of all other beings; and much more his tongue, and hand, and all his outw...
V. 1. THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD AS THE RIVERS OF WATER, the thoughts and plans of the mightiest rulers, sovereign as they may seem, are like ditches and canals in which men lead wate...
PROVERBS CHAPTER 21 THE KING'S HEART; his very inward purposes and inclinations, which seem to be most in a man's own power, and out of the reach of all others, and much more his tongue and hand, and...
Proverbs 21:1-31:1 kings H4428 heart H3820 hand H3027 LORD H3068 rivers H6388 water H4325 turns H5186 (H8686
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Those who follow after righteousness, shall find righteousness, honor and life. KEY WORD: Counsel (Proverbs 20:5). STRONG VERSES: P...
Proverbs 21:1. _The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will._ The allusion is probably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn field...
_The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord._ GOD AND THE HUMAN RACE In these verses we have God unfolded to us. I. As the controller of human hearts. Some suppose there is an allusion to the gard...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 21:1 Like Proverbs 20:22, this section has three proverbs on divine judgment followed by a fourth proverb that is related but does not explicitly mention the Lord. God
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 21:1. RIVERS OF WATER. Rather _streams_, the allusion being to the watercourses, which in hot countries intersect fields and gardens for the purpose of irrigation, in which...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 21:1 THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, AS THE RIVERS OF WATER. We are to think of the little channels used for irrigation. As these are altogether under the gardener's...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Proverbs 21:1-31. Proverbs 21:1-31, Solomon declares: The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will (Prov...
Acts 7:10; Daniel 4:35; Ezra 7:27; Ezra 7:28; Isaiah 43:19;...
The kings — He names kings not to exclude other men, but because they are more arbitrary and uncontrollable than others. As rivers — Which husband — men draw by little channels into the adjacent groun...