2 Chronicles 7:13
11 When Solomon had finished the house of the LORD and the royal palace, successfully carrying out all that was in his heart to do for the house of the LORD and for his own palace,
12 the 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.
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,
14 and 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.
15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place.
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
- 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,
- KJV
- 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;
- WEB
- “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,
- ASV
- 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;
- DARBY
- If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
- BLB
- If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain, or if I lay charge upon the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,
- ÅB
- Når jeg lukker himmelen, så det ikke kommer regn, og når jeg befaler gresshopper å fortære landet, og når jeg sender pest iblant mitt folk,
- OTB
- Hvis jeg lukker himmelen så det ikke kommer regn, eller hvis jeg befaler gresshopper å fortære landet, eller hvis jeg sender pest blant mitt folk,
- B1930
- Når jeg lukker himmelen, så det ikke kommer regn, og når jeg byder gresshopper å fortære landet, og når jeg sender pest iblandt mitt folk,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Chronicles 6:26–28
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,
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 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 contextRevelation 3:7
To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
Read in context2 Samuel 24:13–15
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 contextJob 12:14
What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
Read in contextEzekiel 14:19–21
Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
Read in contextExodus 10:4–6
But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
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