Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, New Living Translation At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you. English Standard Version When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, Berean Standard Bible If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, King James Bible 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; New King James Version When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, New American Standard Bible 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 a plague among My people, NASB 1995 “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, NASB 1977 “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, Legacy Standard Bible If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, Amplified Bible If I shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or if I command locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence and plague among My people, Christian Standard Bible If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people, Holman Christian Standard Bible If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on My people, American Standard Version 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; Contemporary English Version Suppose I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat the crops or make my people suffer with deadly diseases. English Revised Version 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; GOD'S WORD® Translation I may shut the sky so that there is no rain, or command grasshoppers to devour the countryside, or send an epidemic among my people. Good News Translation Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people, International Standard Version Whenever I close the skies so there is no rain, or whenever I command locusts to lay waste to the land, or whenever I send epidemics among my people, Majority Standard Bible If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, NET Bible When I close up the sky so that it doesn't rain, or command locusts to devour the land's vegetation, or send a plague among my people, New Heart English Bible 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 a plague among my people; Webster's Bible Translation 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; World English Bible “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, Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionIf I restrain the heavens and there is no rain, and if I lay charge on the locust to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people— Young's Literal Translation If I restrain the heavens and there is no rain, and if I lay charge on the locust to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people -- Smith's Literal Translation If I shall shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and if I shall command upon the locust to consume the land, and if I shall send death upon my people; Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleIf I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders, and command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people: Catholic Public Domain Version If I close up heaven, so that no rain will fall, or if I order and instruct the locust to devour the land, or if I send a pestilence among my people, New American Bible If I close heaven so that there is no rain, if I command the locust to devour the land, if I send pestilence among my people, New Revised Standard Version When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleIf I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; Peshitta Holy Bible Translated If I shall choose, I shall restrain the Heavens and rain will not descend, and if I wish, I shall issue command over the locusts and they shall consume the land, and if I shall choose, I will stretch out slaughter among my people. OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917If 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; Brenton Septuagint Translation If I should restrain the heaven and there should be no rain, and if I should command the locust to devour the trees, and if I should send pestilence upon my people; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The LORD's Response to Solomon…12the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, 14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.… Cross References Deuteronomy 28:23-24 The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron. / The LORD will turn the rain of your land into dust and powder; it will descend on you from the sky until you are destroyed. 1 Kings 8:35-36 When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them, / then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance. Amos 4:7-9 “I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered. / People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. / “I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. Leviticus 26:19-20 I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze, / and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit. Joel 1:17-20 The seeds lie shriveled beneath the clods; the storehouses are in ruins; the granaries are broken down, for the grain has withered away. / How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering. / To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field. ... Jeremiah 14:1-6 This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought: / “Judah mourns and her gates languish. Her people wail for the land, and a cry goes up from Jerusalem. / The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads. ... Haggai 1:10-11 Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. / I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.” Isaiah 5:6 I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.” Ezekiel 14:13-21 “Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast, / then even if these three men—Noah, Daniel, and Job—were in it, their righteousness could deliver only themselves, declares the Lord GOD. / Or if I send wild beasts through the land to leave it childless and desolate, with no man passing through it for fear of the beasts, ... Psalm 105:16 He called down famine on the land and cut off all their supplies of food. Revelation 11:6 These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish. James 5:17-18 Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. / Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops. Luke 4:25 But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land. Matthew 24:7 Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places. Acts 14:17 Yet He has not left Himself without testimony to His goodness: He gives you rain from heaven and fruitful seasons, filling your hearts with food and gladness.” Treasury of Scripture 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; If I shut up heaven 2 Chronicles 6:26-28 When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them; … Deuteronomy 11:17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you. Job 11:10 If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him? I command Exodus 10:4-6 Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: … Psalm 105:34 He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number, Joel 1:4-7 That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten… I send Numbers 14:12 I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they. Numbers 16:46,47 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun… 2 Samuel 24:13-15 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me… Jump to Previous Charge Command Consume Destruction Devour Disease Heaven Heavens Locust Pestilence Plague Rain Restrain Shut Sky WordJump to Next Charge Command Consume Destruction Devour Disease Heaven Heavens Locust Pestilence Plague Rain Restrain Shut Sky Word2 Chronicles 7 1. God having given testimony to Solomon's prayer by fire from heaven, 2. and glory in the temple, the people worship him 4. Solomon's solemn sacrifice 8. Solomon having kept the feasts of tabernacles and dedication, dismisses the people 12. God appearing to Solomon, gives him promises upon condition If I shut the sky This phrase indicates God's sovereign control over nature. The Hebrew word for "shut" is "עָצַר" (atsar), which means to restrain or hold back. In the ancient Near Eastern context, rain was seen as a blessing from God, essential for agriculture and survival. The shutting of the sky signifies a divine intervention where God withholds rain as a form of judgment or discipline. This reflects the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where obedience brings blessings, and disobedience results in curses (Deuteronomy 28). so there is no rain or if I command the locusts to devour the land or if I send a plague among My people If.--H?n, as in Jeremiah 3:1; Isaiah 54:15. The locusts.--H?g?b, a winged and edible species (Leviticus 11:22). In 2Chronicles 6:28, two other kinds, the 'arbeh and h?sil, were mentioned. . . . Verses 13-15. - These three verses (the counterparts of 2 Chronicles 6:26, 28, 40) are not in the parallel. Although we can scarcely trace the principle of their selection from the seven parts of the prayer, they would seem to have been selected from the original work, as samples of a reply which presumably embraced reference to all the seven. When, in ver. 14, it is said, I will heal their land, the telling expression, according to the Authorized Version, must be understood to refer to the removing of drought by rain. On the other hand, the Authorized Version is, in ver. 15, unfortunate in the unnecessary and misleading insertion of the italics found there, and in the use of the preposition "in" for of, the simple case construct, which is manifestly what is wanted and intended. It was not absolutely essential that prayer should be made in the place. How many references there are to prayer being made from a distance toward the place!Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Ifהֵ֣ן (hên) Interjection Strong's 2005: Lo! behold! I close אֶֽעֱצֹ֤ר (’e·‘ĕ·ṣōr) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 6113: To inclose, to hold back, to maintain, rule, assemble the sky הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ (haš·šā·ma·yim) Article | Noun - masculine plural Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky so there is יִהְיֶ֣ה (yih·yeh) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be no וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-) Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no rain, מָטָ֔ר (mā·ṭār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4306: Rain or if וְהֵן־ (wə·hên-) Conjunctive waw | Interjection Strong's 2005: Lo! behold! I command אֲצַוֶּ֥ה (’ă·ṣaw·weh) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order the locust חָגָ֖ב (ḥā·ḡāḇ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 2284: Locust, grasshopper to devour לֶאֱכ֣וֹל (le·’ĕ·ḵō·wl) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 398: To eat the land, הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ) Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land or if וְאִם־ (wə·’im-) Conjunctive waw | Conjunction Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not I send אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח (’ă·šal·laḥ) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out a plague דֶּ֖בֶר (de·ḇer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1698: A pestilence among My people, בְּעַמִּֽי׃ (bə·‘am·mî) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock Links 2 Chronicles 7:13 NIV2 Chronicles 7:13 NLT 2 Chronicles 7:13 ESV 2 Chronicles 7:13 NASB 2 Chronicles 7:13 KJV 2 Chronicles 7:13 BibleApps.com 2 Chronicles 7:13 Biblia Paralela 2 Chronicles 7:13 Chinese Bible 2 Chronicles 7:13 French Bible 2 Chronicles 7:13 Catholic Bible OT History: 2 Chronicles 7:13 If I shut up the sky so (2 Chron. 2Ch iiCh ii ch 2 chr 2chr) |
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