2 Chronicles 6:27

then listen in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Israel, when you direct them to the good way in which they should walk. Send rain on your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

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In The King James Version

Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

In Context

26When the skies are shut up and there is no rain because the people have sinned against you—if they pray toward this place, confess your name, and turn from their sin when you have afflicted them—

28Suppose there is famine in the land, or suppose that there is disease, blight or mildew, locusts or caterpillars; or suppose that its enemies attack the city gates in their land, or that there is any plague or sickness—

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Cross References

1 Kings 18:40So Elijah said to them, “Take the prophets of Baal. Do not let one of them escape.” So they took them, and Elijah brought the prophets of Baal down to the Kishon River and killed them there.

Job 37:11Indeed, he weighs down the thick cloud with moisture; 1 he scatters his lightning through the clouds. 1

Psalms 25:8Yahweh is good and upright; 1 therefore he teaches sinners the way. 1

Psalms 68:9You, God, sent a plentiful rain; 1 you strengthened your inheritance when it was weary. 1

Psalms 119:33Teach me, Yahweh, the way of your statutes, 1 and I will keep them to the end. 1

Jeremiah 5:24For they do not say in their hearts, “Let us fear Yahweh our God, the one who brings the rain 1 —the early rain and the late rains—in their right time, keeping the fixed weeks of the harvest for us.” 1

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 6:13-42

12 And he stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands: 13 For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven, 14 And said, O Lord God of Israel, there is no God like thee in the heaven, nor in the earth; which keepest… Read the whole commentary →

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