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 broke the pride of your strength: and I gave your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

And the anger of Jehovah kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and the land shall not give her produce, and ye perished quickly from off the good land that Jehovah gave to you.

And the heavens which over thy head were brass, and the earth which is under thee, iron.

And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land;

There is no rain

Thus said Jehovah, Where this writing of cutting off of your mother which I sent her away? or which of my creditors whom I sold you to him? Behold, in your iniquities ye sold yourselves, and in your transgressions your mother was sent away.

And I will make it a desolation; it shall not be pruned and it shall not be dressed, and there came up sharp points and thorns: and upon the clouds I will command from raining rain upon it

Son of man, if a land shall sin against me to cover a transgression, and I stretched forth my hands upon it, and I broke to it the staff of bread, and sent famine upon it, and I cut off from it man and cattle:

Come to the house of God and transgress: at Gilgal multiply to transgress; and bring your sacrifices for the morning, your tenths for three days:

These have power to shut up heaven, that the rain should not wet in the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every blow, as often as they wish.

Turn

He covering his transgression shall not prosper: but he confessing and forsaking, shall be compassionated.

And in the unjust one turning back from his injustice which he did; and he will do judgment and justice, he shall save his soul alive.

Thou dost

And when straits were to him he besought the face of Jehovah his God, and he will humble himself greatly from before the God of his fathers.

I will go and turn back to my place, even till when they shall be guilty, and they sought my face: in straitness to them they will turn to me.

Go ye and we will turn back to Jehovah: for he rent and he will heal us; he will strike, and he will bind us up.