2 Chronicles 7:13

Judgment Repentance

¹¹ Thus Solomon finished the house of the LORD, and the king’s house: and all that came into Solomon’s heart to make in the house of the LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.

¹² And the LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said unto him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for an house of sacrifice.

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;

¹⁴ If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

¹⁵ Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made 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.

Compare

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 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;
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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.
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Revelation 11:6
These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
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Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
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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.
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Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
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Ezekiel 14:19–21
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
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Exodus 10:4–6
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
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