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2 Chronicles 7:13

2 Chronicles chapter 7 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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;

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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;

Context

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

v.13This passage

v.14if my people, who 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.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 6:26

    When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:

  • Ezekiel 14:19

    Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast;

  • Joel 2:25

    And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.

  • Deuteronomy 11:17

    and the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit; and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah giveth you.

  • Revelation 11:6

    These have the power to shut the heaven, that it rain not during the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they shall desire.

  • 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 none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth: