New King James Version
2 Chronicles 7:13
13When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts 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,
- 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 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; and Solomon successfully accomplished all that came into his heart to make in the house of the Lord and in his own house. 12Then the Lord appeared to Solomon by 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 heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, 14if My people who are called by My name will 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 prayer 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 the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, when they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin because You afflict them,
- Deuteronomy 11:17lest the Lord’s anger be aroused against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there be no rain, and the land yield no produce, and you perish quickly from the good land which the Lord is giving you.
- Job 11:10“If He passes by, imprisons, and gathers to judgment, Then who can hinder Him?
- Job 12:14If He breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt; If He imprisons a man, there can be no release.
- Psalms 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
- Luke 4:25But I tell you truly, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, and there was a great famine throughout all the land;
- Revelation 3:7“And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, “He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens”:
- Revelation 11:6These have power to shut heaven, so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy; and they have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.
- Exodus 10:4Or else, if you refuse to let My people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.
- Psalms 105:34He spoke, and locusts came, Young locusts without number,
- Joel 1:4What the chewing locust left, the swarming locust has eaten; What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten; And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
- Joel 2:25“So I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, The crawling locust, The consuming locust, And the chewing locust, 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 16:46So Moses said to Aaron, “Take a censer and put fire in it from the altar, put incense on it, and take 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 he said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies, while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ plague in your land? Now consider and see what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”
- Ezekiel 14:19“Or if I send a pestilence into that land and pour out My fury on it in blood, and 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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