 | Joseph Hall - 1825 - 596 pages
...less amazed at the loving munificence of Ahasuerus, than she was before afraid of his austerity : " The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord ; as the...rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will." It is not good to swallow favours too greedily, lest they either choke us in the passage, or prove... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...exertions to retain him, I had but little hope that an event so desirable would soon take place. But, " the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water; he turneth it withersoever he will." We were not a little pleased yesterday to see this Chief, with his wife and... | |
 | Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher) - 1825 - 1068 pages
...«hje« u»rd for tiic inner man— the mjod. So rli. xvitl. I. More miscellaneous] CHAP. XXI. [proverbs. ginning to the end. 12 I know that there is no good in them, b .'.t>T : he turueth it whithersoever he trill. 2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes : but... | |
 | John Owen - 1826 - 686 pages
...Gen. 1. 20. Fourthly, his determining and restraining second causes to such and such effects : ' even the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord ; as the...rivers of water he turneth it whithersoever he will ;' Prov. xxi. 1. First, His sustentation or upholding of all things, is his powerful continuing of... | |
 | Jonathan Law Pomeroy - 1826 - 332 pages
...welcome as peace was to all; and so beyond the expectation of all, as that was when it took place. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as the...rivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will. If we do not adopt this sentiment, and apply it to explain this affair, we have a mystery in the fact... | |
 | George Townsend - 1826 - 1056 pages
...wound * cleanseth away evil : so do ci^"/,^' stripes the inward parts of the belly. PROVERBS XXI. 1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the...rivers of water : he turneth it whithersoever he will. K ch. «is 2 g Every way of a man is right in his own eyes : but the LORD pondereth the hearts. 3 h... | |
 | William Laurence Brown - 1826 - 346 pages
...all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but lo ! O Lord ! thou knowest it altogether."" "The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water ; he turneth it whithersoever he will."6 " Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing ? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without... | |
 | 1826 - 590 pages
...his heart, as he pleased. Solomon says, Prov. xxii. 1. " The king's heart (and he was himself a king) is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water : He turneth it whithersoever he will." And David had said, Psal. cv. 25. "He (God) turned their heart (the heart of the Egyptians) to hate... | |
 | William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley - 1826 - 806 pages
...actions. The first is, that " The powers that be are ordained of God," (Kom. xiii. 1); the second, " that the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord ; as the rivers of water lie turneth then whithersoever he will," (Prov. xxi. 1),; this signifies, (if I mistake not) that king*... | |
 | John William Fletcher - 1826 - 312 pages
...and in all places, to sin or to righteonsness, Mr. T. prodnces the following text : Page 65. " Even the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: Anil he tnrneth it n-hithertoever he will. (Prov. xxi. i.) Odd sort of Ml/determination this !" —... | |
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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. 
