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Selected Verse: Proverbs 21:1 - American Standard

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Pr 21:1 American Standard The king's heart is in the hand of Jehovah as the watercourses: He turneth it whithersoever he will.
  King James The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
(Pro. 21:1-31)

rivers--irrigating channels (Psa 1:3), whose course was easily turned (compare Deu 11:10). God disposes even kings as He pleases (Pro 16:9; Psa 33:15).
 
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15 He that fashioneth the hearts of them all, That considereth all their works.
9 A man's heart deviseth his way; But Jehovah directeth his steps.
10 For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs;
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, That bringeth forth its fruit in its season, Whose leaf also doth not wither; And whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.
15 In the light of the king's countenance is life; And his favor is as a cloud of the latter rain.
2 And a man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
2 A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that his heart may reveal itself.
15 And the slope of the valleys That inclineth toward the dwelling of Ar, And leaneth upon the border of Moab.
17 He shall not look upon the rivers, The flowing streams of honey and butter.