2 Chronicles 6:27

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.

When thou hast

Good way

Isaiah 30:21

Jeremiah 6:16

Jeremiah 42:3

Send rain

Bible References

When thou hast

When heaven is 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 afflict them,

Show me thy ways, O LORD. Teach me thy paths.

Blessed is the man whom thou chasten, O LORD, and teach out of thy law,

Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes, and I shall keep it to the end.

And many nations shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob, and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths. For out of Zion shall go forth the law, an

It is written in the prophets, And they will all be taught of God. Every man who hears from the Father, and having learned, comes to me.

Good way

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

Thus says LORD, Stand ye in the ways and see. And ask for the old paths where is the good way. And walk in it, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk.

that LORD thy God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.

Send rain

and Elijah said to them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them, and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and killed them there.

Yea, he loads the thick cloud with moisture. He spreads abroad the cloud of his lightning,

Thou, O God, sent a plentiful rain. Thou confirmed thine inheritance when it was weary.

Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear LORD our God, who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season, who preserves to us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

Are there any among the vanities of the nations that can cause rain? Or can the heavens give showers? Are not thou he, O LORD our God? Therefore we will wait for thee, for thou have made all these things.

And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing, and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

And it shall come to pass in that day, I will answer, says LORD. I will answer the heavens, and they shall answer the earth,

Be glad then, ye sons of Zion, and rejoice in LORD your God, for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first [month].

Ask ye of LORD rain in the time of the latter rain, [even of] LORD who makes lightnings, and he will give them showers of rain, to everyone grass in the field.

Elijah was a man of the same nature as we. And by prayer, he asked for it not to rain, and it did not rain on the earth for three years and six months.