2 Chronicles 7:13

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

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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

12And Jehovah 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.

14if my people, who 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, and will heal their land.

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Cross References

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

Deuteronomy 11:17and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth 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, when thou dost afflict them:

Job 11:10If he pass through, and shut up, And call unto judgment, then who can hinder him?

Psalms 105:34He spake, and the locust came, And the grasshopper, and that without number,

Ezekiel 14:19Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath 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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