Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

General references

Bible References

The king's

Proverbs 16:1
The plans of the heart belong to man,
But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
Proverbs 20:24
Man’s steps are ordained by the Lord,
How then can man understand his way?
Ezra 7:27
Blessed be the Lord, the God of our fathers, who has put such a thing as this in the king’s heart, to adorn the house of the Lord which is in Jerusalem,
Nehemiah 1:11
O Lord, I beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant and the prayer of Your servants who delight to revere Your name, and make Your servant successful today and grant him compassion before this man.”Now I was the cupbearer to the king.
Nehemiah 2:4
Then the king said to me, “What would you request?” So I prayed to the God of heaven.
Psalm 105:25
He turned their heart to hate His people,
To deal craftily with His servants.
Psalm 106:46
He also made them objects of compassion
In the presence of all their captors.
Daniel 4:35
All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing,
But He does according to His will in the host of heaven
And among the inhabitants of earth;
And no one can ward off His hand
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’
Acts 7:10
and rescued him from all his afflictions, and granted him favor and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and he made him governor over Egypt and all his household.

As

Psalm 74:15
You broke open springs and torrents;
You dried up ever-flowing streams.
Psalm 93:4
More than the sounds of many waters,
Than the mighty breakers of the sea,
The Lord on high is mighty.
Psalm 114:3
The sea looked and fled;
The Jordan turned back.
Isaiah 43:19
“Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.
Isaiah 44:27
“It is I who says to the depth of the sea, ‘Be dried up!’
And I will make your rivers dry.
Revelation 16:4
Then the third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of waters; and they became blood.

General references

Genesis 12:18
Then Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?