OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 21:1

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The king’s heart is in the LORD’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.

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Verse 1. It. Though it be free, and may resist grace or embrace virtue. Isaiah 45:22. Jeremiah 3:14 and 7:3. Joshua 24:23. Calmet.—Yet God knows how to turn the heart even of a king, so as to preserve his liberty, with the same ease as a gardener brings the streams of water to his plants. Menochius.

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