2 Chronicles 6:26
24 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 before You in this temple,
25 then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and 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,
27 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.
28 When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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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 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;
- 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 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, 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 28:23
The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 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 contextProverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
Read in contextHosea 5:15–6:1
Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Read in context1 Kings 17:1–18
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”
Read in context2 Chronicles 33:12–13
And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.
Read in contextIsaiah 50:1–2
This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.
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