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2 Chronicles 7:13
13When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,
2 Chronicles 7:13 in other versions
- King James Version (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;
- New International Version (NIV)“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,
- New King James Version (NKJV)When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people,
- New Living Translation (NLT)At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you.
Context of 2 Chronicles 7:13
11Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king's house. All that Solomon had planned to do in the house of the Lord and in his own house he successfully accomplished. 12Then the Lord appeared to Solomon in the night and said to him: "I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for myself as a house of sacrifice. When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, 14if 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 and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.
Read all of 2 Chronicles 72 Chronicles 7:13 word by word
הֵ֣ן אֶֽעֱצֹ֤ר הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ וְלֹֽא־יִהְיֶ֣ה מָטָ֔ר וְהֵן־אֲצַוֶּ֥ה עַל־חָגָ֖ב לֶאֱכ֣וֹל הָאָ֑רֶץ וְאִם־אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח דֶּ֖בֶר בְּעַמִּֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Ifהֵןhên · look!H2005
- I shut upעָצַר‛âtsar · to restrainH6113
- heavenשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
- that there be no rainמָטַרmâţâr · rainH4306
- or if I commandצָוָהtsâvâh · to commandH6680
- the locustsחָגָבchâgâb · locustH2284
- to devourאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
- the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
- or if I sendשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
- pestilenceדֶּ֫בֶרdeber · pestilenceH1698
- among my peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971
Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 7:13
- 2 Chronicles 6:26"When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
- Deuteronomy 11:17then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and he will shut up the heavens, so that there will be no rain, and the land will yield no fruit, and you will perish quickly off the good land that the Lord is giving you.
- Job 11:10If he passes through and imprisons and summons the court, who can turn him back?
- Job 12:14If he tears down, none can rebuild; if he shuts a man in, none can open.
- Psalms 107:34a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.
- Luke 4:25But in truth, I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were shut up three years and six months, and a great famine came over all the land,
- Revelation 3:7"And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: 'The words of the holy one, the true one, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, who shuts and no one opens.
- Revelation 11:6They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.
- Exodus 10:4For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
- Psalms 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came, young locusts without number,
- Joel 1:4What the cutting locust left, the swarming locust has eaten. What the swarming locust left, the hopping locust has eaten, and what the hopping locust left, the destroying locust has eaten.
- Joel 2:25I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the hopper, the destroyer, and the cutter, my great army, which I sent among you.
- Numbers 14:12I will strike them with the pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they."
- Numbers 16:46And Moses said to Aaron, "Take your censer, and put fire on it from off the altar and lay incense on it and carry it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone out from the Lord; the plague has begun."
- 2 Samuel 24:13So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, "Shall three years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in your land? Now consider, and decide what answer I shall return to him who sent me."
- Ezekiel 14:19"Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out my wrath upon it with blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 7:13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 13Or if I send pestilence - "The angel of death." - Targum.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-15These verses refer directly to Solomon’s prayer (see 2 Chronicles 6:26, 28, 40). God explained to Solomon what is needed to be saved from judgment. In Solomon’s prayer, each situation was addressed separately. In the Lord’s answer, the response is more general and thorough. The people need humility, repentance, seeking the Lord, and prayer to heal from their troubles.Read the comment
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Commentaries on 2 Chronicles 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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