Proverbs 21:1
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21 The king’s heart is like a stream of water directed by the Lord;
he guides it wherever he pleases.
Proverbs 16:9
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9 We can make our plans,
but the Lord determines our steps.
Proverbs 20:24
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24 The Lord directs our steps,
so why try to understand everything along the way?
Ezra 6:22
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22 Then they celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread for seven days. There was great joy throughout the land because the Lord had caused the king of Assyria[a] to be favorable to them, so that he helped them to rebuild the Temple of God, the God of Israel.
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- 6:22 King Darius of Persia is here identified as the king of Assyria because Persia had conquered the Babylonian Empire, which included the earlier Assyrian Empire.
Acts 7:10
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10 and rescued him from all his troubles. And God gave him favor before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. God also gave Joseph unusual wisdom, so that Pharaoh appointed him governor over all of Egypt and put him in charge of the palace.
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Proverbs 16:1
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16 We can make our own plans,
but the Lord gives the right answer.
Daniel 4:35
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35 All the people of the earth
are nothing compared to him.
He does as he pleases
among the angels of heaven
and among the people of the earth.
No one can stop him or say to him,
‘What do you mean by doing these things?’
Psalm 106:46
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46 He even caused their captors
to treat them with kindness.
Ezra 7:27-28
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Ezra Praises the Lord
27 Praise the Lord, the God of our ancestors, who made the king want to beautify the Temple of the Lord in Jerusalem! 28 And praise him for demonstrating such unfailing love to me by honoring me before the king, his council, and all his mighty nobles! I felt encouraged because the gracious hand of the Lord my God was on me. And I gathered some of the leaders of Israel to return with me to Jerusalem.
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Isaiah 43:19
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19 For I am about to do something new.
See, I have already begun! Do you not see it?
I will make a pathway through the wilderness.
I will create rivers in the dry wasteland.
Psalm 105:25
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25 Then he turned the Egyptians against the Israelites,
and they plotted against the Lord’s servants.
Nehemiah 1:11
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11 O Lord, please hear my prayer! Listen to the prayers of those of us who delight in honoring you. Please grant me success today by making the king favorable to me.[a] Put it into his heart to be kind to me.”
In those days I was the king’s cup-bearer.
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- 1:11 Hebrew today in the sight of this man.
Nehemiah 2:4
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Psalm 74:15
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15 You caused the springs and streams to gush forth,
and you dried up rivers that never run dry.
Isaiah 44:27
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27 When I speak to the rivers and say, ‘Dry up!’
they will be dry.
Revelation 16:4
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4 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs, and they became blood.
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Psalm 93:4
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4 But mightier than the violent raging of the seas,
mightier than the breakers on the shore—
the Lord above is mightier than these!
Revelation 16:12
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12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great Euphrates River, and it dried up so that the kings from the east could march their armies toward the west without hindrance.
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Psalm 114:5
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5 What’s wrong, Red Sea, that made you hurry out of their way?
What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away?
Psalm 114:3
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3 The Red Sea[a] saw them coming and hurried out of their way!
The water of the Jordan River turned away.
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