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Proverbs 21
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Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible · Matthew Henry (1662–1714) · Public Domain
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Proverbs 21 — OverviewProverbs 21 · Little Bible — for children and parentsProverbs 21 is a gallery of contrasts between the way of wisdom and the way of folly. It opens with a stunning declaration: God holds the hearts of kings in His hand. It teaches that God sees through self-justification,…Proverbs 21:1Proverbs 21:1 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleNote, 1. Even the hearts of men are in God's hand, and not only their
goings, as he had said, ch. xx. 24. God can change men's minds, can, by
a powerful insensible operation under their spirits, turn them from…Proverbs 21:1Proverbs 21:1 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeThe king's: Proverbs 16:1, Proverbs 16:9, Proverbs 20:24; Ezra 7:27-28; 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;…Proverbs 21:1Proverbs 21:1 · Little Bible — for children and parentsNo human authority — not even a king — is outside God's sovereign direction. God governs the hearts of rulers as easily as a farmer channels water in an irrigation ditch. This should produce both humility in rulers and…Proverbs 21:1Proverbs 21:1 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThe 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…Proverbs 21:2Proverbs 21:2 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleNote, 1. We are all apt to be partial in judging of ourselves and our
own actions, and to think too favourably of our own character, as if
there was nothing amiss in it: Every way of a man, even his by-way, is…