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

I will also break down your pride of power; I will also make your sky like iron and your earth like bronze.

Or 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.

The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.

But 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;

There is no rain

Thus says the Lord,
“Where is the certificate of divorce
By which I have sent your mother away?
Or to whom of My creditors did I sell you?
Behold, you were sold for your iniquities,
And for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

“I will lay it waste;
It will not be pruned or hoed,
But briars and thorns will come up.
I will also charge the clouds to rain no rain on it.”

“Son of man, if a country sins against Me by committing unfaithfulness, and I stretch out My hand against it, destroy its supply of bread, send famine against it and cut off from it both man and beast,

“Enter Bethel and transgress;
In Gilgal multiply transgression!

Bring your sacrifices every morning,

Your tithes every three days.

These 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.

Turn

He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
But he who confesses and forsakes them will find compassion.

Again, when a wicked man turns away from his wickedness which he has committed and practices justice and righteousness, he will save his life.

Thou dost

When he was in distress, he entreated the Lord his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

I will go away and return to My place
Until they

acknowledge their guilt and seek My face;

In their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.

“Come, let us return to the Lord.
For He has torn us, but He will heal us;
He has wounded us, but He will bandage us.