Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary
RIVERS OF WATER - See the Psalms 1:3 note. As the cultivator directsthe stream into the channels where it is most wanted, so Yahwehdirects the thoughts of the true king, that his favors may fall, no...
Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein
CHAPTER 21 PERSONAL INSTRUCTIONS AS TO LIFE AND CONDUCTIn 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 ofwater: He turne...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible
PROVERBS 21:1. WATERCOURSES: not the natural brooks and wadys ofPalestine, but the artificial irrigation canals of Egypt or Babylonia,which could be diverted in any direction at will.Proverbs 21:4....
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
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 givento the small channels whic...
Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
_rivers_ Lit. STREAMS, or CHANNELS OF WATER _is_ THE HEART OF A KINGIN THE HAND OF JEHOVAH. The comparison is drawn from artificialirrigation. The irrigator has complete control over the water suppl...
co*ke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD— The author of the_Observations_ informs us, that in Judea their watering canals areartificially divided into several small streams, which render thecoun...
College Press Bible Study Textbook Series
CHAPTER 21TEXT Proverbs 21:1-101.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...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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 OFWATER: HE TURNETH IT WHER...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
1. The 'watercourses' (RV) are the artificial irrigation channels ofEgypt and Babylon (Isaiah 58:11)....
EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
God directs both good and evil kings.God directed King Nebuchadnezzar to destroy Jerusalem. This was apunishment because the people in Jerusalem were very evil (2Chronicles 36:15-17; Daniel 1:2)....
EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOMPROVERBS_KEITH SIMONS_CHAPTER 21V1 A king is like a canal that God controls.God leads the king in the way that God decides....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible
XXI.(1) AS THE RIVERS OF WATER. — Channels for irrigation (comp. Psalms1:3). He turns the heart of the king, whose favour is as the latterrain (Proverbs 16:15) and dew (Proverbs 19:12), now towards...
ETCBC data on Hebrew bible
פַּלְגֵי ־מַ֣יִם לֶב ־מֶ֭לֶךְ בְּ יַד־יְהוָ֑
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)
CHAPTER 22WINE"He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine andoil shall not be rich."- Proverbs 21:17THE Septuagint translation has an interesting addition to the proverbin...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible
Verse Proverbs 21:4. The "lamp" of a man's life is his spirit. Wherethat is exalted and manifests itself in the high look and the proudheart, there is sin. All of which is to say that for a man to f...
Geneva Study Bible Commentary
The (a) king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers ofwater: he turneth it wherever he will.(a) Though kings seem to have all things at commandment, they are notable to bring their...
George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
_It. Though it be free, and may resist grace or embrace virtue, Isaiasxlv. 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...
Hawker's Poor man's commentary
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 menare, like the current of...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary
_DOMINUS DIRIGIT COR_‘The King’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers ofwater: He turneth it whithersoever He will.’Proverbs 21:1The analogy which Solomon saw between the king’s hear...
John Darby's Synopsis
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31.In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how toavoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to befollowe...
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible
THE KING'S HEART [IS] IN THE HAND OF THE LORD, [AS] THE RIVERS OFWATER,.... The heart of every king, and all that is in it, histhoughts, counsels, purposes, and designs; the hearts of bad kings, as...
John Trapp Complete Commentary
The king's heart [is] in the hand of the LORD, [as] the rivers ofwater: he turneth it whithersoever he will.Ver. 1. The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord.] Be kings neverso absolute and unac...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
_The king's heart_ His very inward purposes and inclinations, whichseem to be most in a man's own power, and out of the reach of allother beings; and much more his tongue, and hand, and all his outw...
Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible
V. 1. THE KING'S HEART IS IN THE HAND OF THE LORD AS THE RIVERS OFWATER, the thoughts and plans of the mightiest rulers, sovereign asthey may seem, are like ditches and canals in which men lead wate...
Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible
PROVERBS CHAPTER 21 THE KING'S HEART; his very inward purposes andinclinations, which seem to be most in a man's own power, and out ofthe reach of all others, and much more his tongue and hand, and...
Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes
Proverbs 21:1-31:1 kings H4428 heart H3820 hand H3027 LORD H3068rivers H6388 water H4325 turns H5186 (H8686
Summarized Bible Commentary
CONTENTS: Warnings and instructions.CHARACTERS: God.CONCLUSION: Those who follow after righteousness, shall findrighteousness, honor and life.KEY WORD: Counsel (Proverbs 20:5).STRONG VERSES: P...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Proverbs 21:1. _The king's heart is in the hand of the Lord; as therivers of water, he turneth it whithersoever he will._ The allusion isprobably to the water-meads and the ditches in the corn field...
The Biblical Illustrator
_The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord._GOD AND THE HUMAN RACEIn these verses we have God unfolded to us.I. As the controller of human hearts. Some suppose there is anallusion to the gard...
The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 21:1 Like Proverbs 20:22, this section hasthree proverbs on divine judgment followed by a fourth proverb that isrelated but does not explicitly mention the Lord. God
The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary
CRITICAL NOTES.—PROVERBS 21:1. RIVERS OF WATER. Rather _streams_, the allusion beingto the watercourses, which in hot countries intersect fields andgardens for the purpose of irrigation, in which...
The Pulpit Commentaries
EXPOSITIONPROVERBS 21:1THE 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 theseare altogether under the gardener's...
Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith
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 (Prov...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Acts 7:10; Daniel 4:35; Ezra 7:27; Ezra 7:28; Isaiah 43:19;...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes
The kings — He names kings not to exclude other men, but becausethey are more arbitrary and uncontrollable than others. As rivers —Which husband — men draw by little channels into the adjacentgroun...
