1 Kings 8:35
33 When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
34 then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
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,
36 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.
37 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
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- BSB
- 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,
- KJV
- When 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 afflictest them:
- WEB
- “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,
- ASV
- When 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:
- DARBY
- When 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, because thou hast afflicted them;
- BLB
- When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and from their sin they turn back because You afflict them,
- ÅB
- Når himmelen lukkes, så det ikke kommer regn, fordi de synder mot deg, og de så ber, vendt mot dette sted, og bekjenner ditt navn og vender om fra sin synd, fordi du ydmyker dem,
- OTB
- Når himlene er lukket og det ikke er regn fordi de har syndet mot Deg, og de ber mot dette stedet og bekjenner Ditt navn og vender seg fra sin synd når Du plager dem,
- B1930
- Når himmelen lukkes, så det ikke kommer regn, fordi de synder mot dig, og de så beder, vendt mot dette sted, og bekjenner ditt navn og vender om fra sin synd, fordi du ydmyker dem,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Deuteronomy 11:17
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
Read in contextLeviticus 26:19
I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,
Read in context1 Kings 8:33
When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
Read in context2 Samuel 24:13
So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
Read in contextRevelation 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.
Read in contextLuke 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 28:23–24
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
Read in contextIsaiah 9:13
But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
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