2 Chronicles 6:26

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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;

The heaven

There is no rain

Revelation 11:6

Turn

Proverbs 28:13

Ezekiel 18:27

Thou dost

2 Chronicles 33:12

Hosea 5:15

Hosea 6:1

Bible References

The heaven

And I will break the pride of your stronghold, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as bronze.

and then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heavens, 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 gives you.

And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land,

There is no rain

Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities ye are sold, and for your rebellions was your mother put away,

And I will lay it waste; it shall not be pruned, nor hoed; but briers and thorns shall come up there; I will even command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Son of man, when the land sins against me by rebelling blatantly and I stretch out my hand upon her and break the staff of the bread thereof and send famine upon her and cut off man and beast out of her

Go to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal increase the rebellion; and bring your sacrifices early in the morning and your tithes every three years:

These have power to shut the heaven, that it not rain in the days of their prophecy and have power over the waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

Turn

He that covers his sins shall not prosper, but whosoever confesses and forsakes them shall attain mercy.

Again, when the wicked man leaves his wickedness that he has committed and lives according to judgment and righteousness, he shall cause his soul to live.

Thou dost

And when he was in affliction, he besought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,

I will go and return to my place until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face; in their affliction they will seek me early.

Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has smitten, and he will bind us up.