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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_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 whi...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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 WHE...
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1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels of
Egypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
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God directs both good and evil kings.
God directed King Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Jerusalem. This was a
punishment because the people in Jerusalem were very evil (2
Chronicles 36:15-17; Daniel 1:2)....
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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 toward...
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פַּלְגֵי ־מַ֣יִם לֶב ־מֶ֭לֶךְ בְּ יַד
־יְהוָ֑ה עַֽל ־כָּל ־אֲשֶׁ֖ר
יַחְפֹּ֣ץ יַטֶּֽנּוּ׃...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
follow...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Proverbs 21:1-31:1 kings H4428 heart H3820 hand H3027 LORD H3068
rivers H6388 water H4325 turns H5186 (H8686) wishes H2654 (H8799)
The king's - Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 20:24;...
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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:...
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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...
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_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...
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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 is a m...
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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...
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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...
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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 (Pro...
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Acts 7:10; Daniel 4:35; Ezra 7:27; Ezra 7:28; Isaiah 43:19; Isaiah
44:27; Nehemiah 1:11; Nehemiah 2:4; Proverbs 16:1; Proverbs 16:9;...
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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...