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 break your strong pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze.

Then the anger of the Lord will erupt against you and he will close up the sky so that it does not rain. The land will not yield its produce, and you will soon be removed from the good land that the Lord is about to give you.

The sky above your heads will be bronze and the earth beneath you iron.

But in truth I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the sky was shut up three and a half years, and there was a great famine over all the land.

There is no rain

This is what the Lord says: "Where is your mother's divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.

I will make it a wasteland; no one will prune its vines or hoe its ground, and thorns and briers will grow there. I will order the clouds not to drop any rain on it.

"Son of man, suppose a country sins against me by being unfaithful, and I stretch out my hand against it, cut off its bread supply, cause famine to come on it, and kill both people and animals.

"Go to Bethel and rebel! At Gilgal rebel some more! Bring your sacrifices in the morning, your tithes on the third day!

These two have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the time they are prophesying. They have power to turn the waters to blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague whenever they want.

Turn

The one who covers his transgressions will not prosper, but whoever confesses them and forsakes them will find mercy.

When a wicked person turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will preserve his life.

Thou dost

In his pain Manasseh asked the Lord his God for mercy and truly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors.

Then I will return again to my lair until they have suffered their punishment. Then they will seek me; in their distress they will earnestly seek me.

"Come on! Let's return to the Lord! He himself has torn us to pieces, but he will heal us! He has injured us, but he will bandage our wounds!