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Amsal 21:1
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Hati raja seperti batang air di dalam tangan TUHAN, dialirkan-Nya ke mana Ia ingini.
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
The king's: Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 20:24, Ezra 7:27, Ezra 7:28, Nehemiah 1:11, Nehemiah 2:4, Psalms 105:25, Psalms 106:46, Daniel 4:35, Acts 7:10
as: Psalms 74:15, Psalms 93:4, Psalms 114:3, Psalms 114:5, Isaiah 43:19, Isaiah 44:27, Revelation 16:4, Revelation 16:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 12:18 - General Genesis 12:20 - General Genesis 20:6 - withheld Genesis 33:4 - embraced Genesis 43:14 - And God Genesis 47:6 - is Exodus 2:5 - when she Exodus 2:6 - she had compassion 1 Samuel 19:23 - until he came 2 Kings 7:7 - they arose 2 Kings 8:6 - Restore all 2 Kings 25:27 - king of Babylon 2 Chronicles 18:31 - God moved them 2 Chronicles 33:13 - brought him Ezra 1:1 - the Lord Ezra 5:14 - the king Ezra 6:6 - be ye far Ezra 6:22 - turned Nehemiah 2:8 - the king Esther 4:8 - request Esther 5:2 - she Psalms 105:19 - his word Proverbs 19:21 - nevertheless Proverbs 29:26 - ruler's favour Jeremiah 15:11 - cause the enemy to entreat thee Jeremiah 25:9 - I Jeremiah 37:21 - and that Jeremiah 38:10 - the king Jeremiah 39:12 - do him Jeremiah 40:5 - or go Jeremiah 52:31 - king of Babylon Ezekiel 21:21 - the king Mark 14:15 - he will Mark 15:26 - the superscription Acts 7:23 - it came Philippians 2:13 - to will Revelation 17:17 - put
Cross-References
And I wyll blesse her, and geue thee a sonne of her: yea, I wyll blesse her, and she shalbe [a mother] of nations, yea & kynges of people shall sprynge of her.
Unto who God sayd: Sara thy wife shall beare thee a sonne in deede, & thou shalt call his name Isahac: and I wyll establishe my couenaunt with hym for an euerlastyng couenaunt [and] with his seede after hym.
But my couenaunt wyl I make with Isahac whiche Sara shall beare vnto thee, euen this tyme twelue moneth.
And he sayde: I wyll certaynely returne vnto thee according to the time of lyfe: and lo, Sara thy wyfe shall haue a sonne. That heard Sara in the tent doore, which was behynde hym.
Is any thing vnpossible to God? Accordyng to the tyme appoynted wyll I returne vnto thee [euen] according to the time of life: & Sara [shall] haue a sonne.
And God hearde the voyce of the lad, and the angell of God called to Hagar out of heauen, and said vnto her, what ayleth thee Hagar? feare not: for God hath hearde the voyce of the lad where he lyeth.
And God was with the lad, and he grewe, and dwelt in the wyldernesse, and became a principall archer.
And Ioseph sayde vnto his brethren, I dye, & God wyll surely visite you, and bryng you out of this lande, vnto the lande whiche he sware vnto Abraham, Isahac, and Iacob.
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and thou shalt saye vnto them, The Lorde God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isahac, and the God of Iacob appeared vnto me, and sayde: In visityng, haue I visited you, and know that which is done to you in Egypt.
And the people beleued. And when they hearde that the Lorde had visited the children of Israel, and had looked vpon their tribulation, they bowed the selues, and worshipped.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
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 Pharaoh, whom the Lord hardened and softened at pleasure; the antichristian kings, into whose hearts he put it to give their kingdoms to the beast, Revelation 17:17; the hearts of good kings, as David, Solomon, Cyrus, and others: and if the hearts of kings are in the hands of the Lord, which are full of things of the greatest importance with respect to the government of the world; and which are generally more untractable and unmanageable; and who are more resolute and positive, and will have their own wills and ways, especially arbitrary princes; then much more the hearts of other persons. And which are as "rivers of water"; for so the words may be rendered, as rivers of water is "the heart of a king", which is "in the hand of the Lord"; unstable, fluid, and fluctuating; and yet the Lord can stay and settle, and fix them, and keep them steady and within bounds: or which, like a torrent of water, comes with force and impetus; and so the Septuagint render it, "the force of waters"; and bears all before it, as do the wills of despotic kings; and yet these the Lord can stop and bound, and rule and overrule: or like rivers of water, reviving and refreshing, so is the heart of a good king, full of wisdom and prudence, of integrity and faithfulness, of clemency and goodness; the streams of whose bounty and kindness flow among his subjects, to their great pleasure and profit; so Christ, the King of kings, is said to be as "rivers of water",
Isaiah 32:2. The allusion is to gardeners, that make channels for the water to run in, to water their gardens; or to husbandmen, that cut aqueducts from rivers, to water their fields; or to the turning of the course of rivers, as Euphrates was by Cyrus, when he took Babylon. The heart of a king is as much at the dispose of the Lord, and can be turned by him as easily as such canals may be made, or the course of a river turned; for it follows:
he turneth it whithersoever he will; contrary to their first designs, and to answer another purpose; oftentimes towards his people, and for the good of his cause and interest, which they never designed; and to bring about such things as were out of their view. And so, in conversion, the Lord can turn the hearts of men as he pleases; their understanding, will, and affections, are in his hands: he can make the understanding light which was darkness, and so turn it from darkness to light; he can take off the stiffness of the will, and turn it from its bias and bent, and make it willing to that which is good in the day of his power: he can turn the channel and course of the affections from sinful lusts and pleasures, to himself, his son, his truths, word, worship, ordinances, and people; he can take out of the heart what he pleases, its ignorance, hardness, enmity, unbelief, pride, and vanity; and he can put in what he pleases, his fear, his laws, his Spirit, and the gifts and graces of if; he can change and turn it just as he will; he that made the heart can operate upon it, and do with it as seems good in his sight. The Heathens very wrongly call one of their deities Verticordia o, from the power of turning the heart they ascribe to it; however, this shows their sense, that to turn the heart is the property of deity.
o Valer. Maximus, l. 8. c. 15. s. 12. Vid. Ovid. Fasti, l. 4. v. 158.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
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, not at random, but in harmony with a divine order.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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
gift. The happiness of the righteous. The wicked a ransom for
the righteous. The treasures of the wise. He who guards his
tongue. Desire of the sluggard. The false witness. Salvation
is of the Lord.
NOTES ON CHAP. XXI
Verse Proverbs 21:1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord — The Lord is the only ruler of princes. He alone can govern and direct their counsels. But there is an allusion here to the Eastern method of watering their lands. Several canals are dug from one stream; and by opening a particular sluice, the husbandman can direct a stream to whatever part he please: so the king's heart, wherever it turns; i.e., to whomsoever he is disposed to show favour. As the land is enriched with the streams employed in irrigation; so is the favourite of the king, by the royal bounty: and God can induce the king to give that bounty to whomsoever he will. See Harmer.
