2 Chronicles 7:13

If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

In Context

12Then Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: I have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen for myself this place for a house of sacrifice.

14and my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

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Cross References

Numbers 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.

Deuteronomy 11:17and Jehovah's wrath kindle against you, and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain, and that the ground yield not its produce, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you.

2 Chronicles 6:26When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;

Job 11:10If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?

Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;

Ezekiel 14:19Or [if] I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 7:13-22

God's Promises to Solomon. ( b. c. 1004.) 12 And the Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 13 If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin,… Read the whole commentary →

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