2 Chronicles 6:28

Prayer Suffering

²⁶ 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.

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,

²⁹ then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—

³⁰ be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and repay each man according to all his ways, since You know his heart—for You alone know the hearts of men—

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 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,
KJV: If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
WEB: “If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is—
ASV: If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague or whatsoever sickness there be;
DARBY: If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be:
BLB: Famine, when it is in the land, or there is pestilence, blight or mildew, locust or grasshoppers, when it is that their enemies besiege them in their land—its gates—any plague and any sickness,

ÅB: Når det kommer hungersnød i landet, når det kommer pest, når det kommer brann og rust på kornet, gresshopper og gnagere, når deres fiender trenger inn i deres land og kringsetter deres byer, når det kommer noen plage eller noen sykdom -
OTB: Hvis det er hungersnød i landet, hvis det er pest, hvis det er kornbrann eller mugg, gresshopper eller gresshopper, hvis fiender beleirer dem i landet i deres byer, hvilken som helst pest eller sykdom det er,
B1930: Når det kommer hungersnød i landet, når det kommer pest, når det kommer brand og rust på kornet, gresshopper og gnagere, når deres fiender trenger inn i deres land og kringsetter deres byer, når det kommer nogen plage eller nogen sykdom -

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Joel 2:25
I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts— the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust — My great army that I sent against you.
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Ruth 1:1
In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. And a certain man from Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the land of Moab.
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James 5:13
Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
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Revelation 9:3–11
And out of the smoke, locusts descended on the earth, and they were given power like that of the scorpions of the earth.
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2 Chronicles 32:1
After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
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2 Chronicles 12:2–5
In the fifth year of Rehoboam’s reign, because they had been unfaithful to the LORD, Shishak king of Egypt came up and attacked Jerusalem
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2 Chronicles 32:24
In those days Hezekiah became mortally ill. So he prayed to the LORD, who spoke to him and gave him a sign.
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2 Chronicles 20:5–13
Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem in the house of the LORD in front of the new courtyard
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