2 Chronicles 7:13
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
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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 the LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
2 Chronicles 6:26When the heaven is 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 cankerworm, and that 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 →