 | Charles Lambert Coghlan - 1832 - 486 pages
...When a man's ways please the Ixird, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. Pr. xvi. 7- The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord as the rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will. Pr. xxi. 1. Sing, O heavens, and be joyful, O earth ; and break forth into singing,... | |
 | William Jay - 1832 - 704 pages
...above them. He restrains or diverts them by his power when he does not govern them by his grace. " The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of waters : he turneth it whithersoever he will." He often permits his people to fall into the greatest... | |
 | Tresham Dames Gregg - 1832 - 114 pages
...point of view, every thing else would follow as a matter of course. And let us recollect that •' the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of waters he turneth it whithersoever he will." But how shall he be brought to take these views? This... | |
 | William Cogswell - 1833 - 192 pages
...create darkness ; I make peace and create evil ; I the Lord do all these things. — Prov. xxi. 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water ; he turneth it whithersoever he will. — Gen. xlv. 7. And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the... | |
 | Robert Sanderson - 1833 - 100 pages
...stand." " Say not thou, I will recompense evil : but wait ort the Lord, and he shall save thee." " The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will." " Every way of a man is right in his own eyes : but the Lord pondereth the... | |
 | Ira L. Milligan, Judy Milligan - 1997 - 541 pages
...(Ezekiel 47:5). But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream (Amos 5:24). 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). When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and... | |
 | John R. Rice - 2000 - 108 pages
...4:32). For His purpose, God moves kings and empires as well as individuals. As Proverbs 21:1 says, "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the...rivers of water: he turneth it withersoever he will." So the plans of God for the future are often prophesied in great detail. For example, we are plainly... | |
 | Tom Williams - 2000 - 108 pages
...the entire amount! I don't know how much his bill would have been, but I do know that the Bible says, "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will" (Prov. 21:1). God had again intervened for us in a tremendous way. We flew to... | |
 | Simon Barton, Richard Fletcher - 2000 - 300 pages
...his guilt. The king received him peacefully and spoke fine words to him, for as the holy author says: 'The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water.'"'' The count stayed at the king's palace in great honour for many days; afterwards he asked the king with... | |
 | John Gill - 2001 - 736 pages
...Israel. What more free and arbitrary than the heart, mind, and will of a sovereign despotic prince ? yet the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will ; as resolute and determined as it may be, it is in the hands of God ; and it... | |
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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. 
