2 Chronicles 7:13

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,
• English Standard Version (ESV)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,
• 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,

Context of 2 Chronicles 7:13

11Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king’s palace, and successfully completed all that he had planned on doing in the house of the Lord and in his palace. 12Then the Lord appeared to Solomon 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 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, 14and 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, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 15Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place.

2 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

• Ifהֵןhên · look!H2005
• I shutעָצַר‛âtsar · to restrainH6113
• up the heavensשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
• so that there is noלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• rainמָטַרmâţâr · rainH4306
• I commandצָוָהtsâvâh · to commandH6680
• the locustחָגָבchâgâb · locustH2284
• to devourאָכַל'âkal · to eatH398
• the landאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• or ifאִם'im · ifH518
• I sendשָׁלַחshâlach · to send: departH7971
• pestilenceדֶּ֫בֶרdeber · pestilenceH1698
• among My peopleעַם‛am · peopleH5971

Cross-references for 2 Chronicles 7:13

• 2 Chronicles 6:26“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 turn from their sin when You afflict them;
• Deuteronomy 11:17Or 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 ground will not yield its fruit; and you will perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
• Job 11:10If He passes by or shuts up, Or calls an assembly, who can restrain Him?
• Job 12:14Behold, He tears down, and it cannot be rebuilt; He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
• Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into a salt waste, Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
• Luke 4:25But I say to you in truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land;
• Revelation 3:7“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: He who is holy, who is true, who has the key of David, who opens and no one will shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says this:
• Revelation 11:6These have the power to shut up the sky, so that rain will not 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 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 territory.
• Psalms 105:34He spoke, and locusts came, And young locusts, even without number,
• Joel 1:4What the gnawing locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; And what the swarming locust has left, the creeping locust has eaten; And what the creeping locust has left, the stripping locust has eaten.
• Joel 2:25“Then I will make up to you for the years That the swarming locust has eaten, The creeping locust, the stripping locust and the gnawing locust, My great army which I sent among you.
• Numbers 14:12I will smite them with pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”
• Numbers 16:46Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”
• 2 Samuel 24:13So Gad came to David and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven 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 see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”
• Ezekiel 14:19Or if I should send a plague against that country and pour out My wrath in blood on it to cut off man and beast from it,

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

Topics related to 2 Chronicles 7:13

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Chastisement
• Drought
• God
• Locust
• Nation
• Prayer
• Rain
• Solomon

In the dictionaries

• Solomon
• Locust

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