2 Chronicles 7:13

"If I shut up the sky 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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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

12The Lord appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, "I have heard your 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 strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."

Deuteronomy 11:17and the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the Lord gives you.

2 Chronicles 6:26"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

Job 11:10If he passes by, or confines,or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?

Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came,and the grasshoppers, without number,

Ezekiel 14:19"Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;

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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