Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
"When the heavens are stopped up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and they pray to this place and confess your name and turn back from their sin when you humble them,
New American Standard Bible
“When the
King James Version
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;
Holman Bible
because they have sinned against You,
and they pray toward this place
and praise Your name,
and they turn from their sins
because You are afflicting
International Standard Version
"When the skies remain closed, and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray in the direction of this place, confessing your name and turning from their sin when you afflict them,
A Conservative Version
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 do afflict them,
American Standard Version
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:
Amplified
“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict and humble them;
Bible in Basic English
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:
Darby Translation
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, because thou hast afflicted them;
Julia Smith Translation
In shutting up the heavens and there was no rain, because they sinned against thee; if they prayed to this place, and confessed thy name, they shall turn back from their sin when thou wilt humble them.
King James 2000
When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you do afflict them;
Modern King James verseion
When the heavens shall be shut up, and there is no rain because they have sinned against You; if they pray toward this place, and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If heaven be shut up, that there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray at this place and confess thy name and turn from their sins at thy scourging;
NET Bible
"The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,
New Heart English Bible
"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:
The Emphasized Bible
When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain, because they have been sinning against thee, - and they shall pray towards this place, and shall confess thy Name, from their sin, shall return, because thou hast been afflicting them,
Webster
When the heaven is shut, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray towards this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;
World English Bible
"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:
Youngs Literal Translation
In the heavens being restrained, and there is no rain, because they sin against Thee, and they have prayed towards this place, and confessed Thy name -- from their sin they turn back because Thou dost afflict them --
Themes
Drought » Sent by God as a judgment
Heart » The lord knowing the heart
Jerusalem » The lord choosing jerusalem
Jerusalem » What shall be put in jerusalem
Topics
Interlinear
Chata'
Palal
Maqowm
Shem
Shuwb
Chatta'ah
References
Hastings
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 6:26
Verse Info
Context Readings
Solomon's Prayer To Dedicate The Temple
25 then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your people Israel and again bring them back to the land that you gave to them and to their ancestors. 26 "When the heavens are stopped up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you and they pray to this place and confess your name and turn back from their sin when you humble them, 27 then may you yourself hear from the heavens and forgive the sin of your servants and your people Israel, when you teach them the good way in which they should walk, and give rain upon your land that you have given to your people as an inheritance.
Cross References
Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your strength; and I will make your heaven like iron and your land like copper.
Deuteronomy 11:17
And [then] {the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you}, and he will shut up the heavens, and there shall not be rain, and [so] the ground will not give its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land that Yahweh [is] giving to you.
Deuteronomy 28:23
And your heavens that [are] over your heads shall be [like] bronze, and the earth that [is] under you [shall be like] iron.
1 Kings 17:1-18
Elijah the Tishbite from Tishbe of Gilead said to Ahab, "{As Yahweh lives}, the God of Israel before whom I stand, there shall surely not be dew nor rain these years {except by my command}."
2 Chronicles 33:12-13
And when he was in distress he entreated Yahweh his God and greatly humbled himself before the God of his ancestors
Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his transgression will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes will obtain mercy.
Isaiah 5:6
And I will make it a wasteland; it shall not be pruned and hoed, and it shall be overgrown [with] briers and thornbushes. And concerning the clouds, I will command {them not to send} rain down upon it.
Isaiah 50:1-2
Thus says Yahweh: "Where [is] this divorce document of your mother's divorce, [with] which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions.
Jeremiah 14:1-9
[That] which came [as] the word of Yahweh to Jeremiah concerning the matter of the severe drought.
Ezekiel 14:13
"Son of man, when a land sins against me by {acting very unfaithfully}, then I will stretch out my hand against it, and I will break for it [the] {supply of food}, and I will send against it famine, and I will cut it off, [both] human and animal.
Ezekiel 18:27-32
And when the wicked turns from his wickedness that he did and he does justice and righteousness, {he will preserve his life}.
Hosea 5:15-1
{I will return again} to my place until they acknowledge [their] guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.
Joel 1:13-20
Gird yourselves and lament, O priests! Wail, ministers of [the] altar! Come spend the night in sackcloth, ministers of my God, because offering and libation are withheld from the house of your God.
Joel 2:15-17
Blow [the] trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call an assembly;
Amos 4:4-9
"Come [to] Bethel and transgress; [to] Gilgal and {multiply transgression}! Bring your sacrifices in the morning and your tithes on the {third day}.
Luke 4:25
But in truth I say to you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three years and six months while a great famine took place over all the land.
Revelation 11:6
These have the authority to shut the sky, so that {it does not rain} during the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters, to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they wish.