2 Chronicles 7:13

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Summary

If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

If i shut up heaven

I command

I send

Bible References

If i shut up heaven

When the skies are shut and there is no rain
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

them,

Then the Lord’s anger will burn against you. He will close the sky, and there will be no rain; the land will not yield its produce, and you will perish quickly from the good land the Lord is giving you.

If He passes by and throws someone in prison
or convenes a court, who can stop Him?

Whatever He tears down cannot be rebuilt;
whoever He imprisons cannot be released.

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

But I say to you, there were certainly many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months while a great famine came over all the land.

“Write to the angel of the church in Philadelphia:

“The Holy One, the True One, the One who has the key of David, who opens and no one will close, and closes and no one opens says:

These men have the power to close up the sky so that it does not rain during the days of their prophecy. They also have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague whenever they want.

I command

But if you refuse to let My people go, then tomorrow I will bring locusts into your territory.

He spoke, and locusts came—
young locusts without number.

What the devouring locust has left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust has left,
the young locust has eaten;
and what the young locust has left,
the destroying locust has eaten.

I will repay you for the years
that the swarming locust ate,
the young locust, the destroying locust,
and the devouring locust—
My great army that I sent against you.

I send

I will strike them with a plague and destroy them. Then I will make you into a greater and mightier nation than they are.”

Then Moses told Aaron, “Take your firepan, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the community and make atonement for them, because wrath has come from the Lord; the plague has begun.”

So Gad went to David, told him the choices, and asked him, “Do you want three years of famine to come on your land, to flee from your foes three months while they pursue you, or to have a plague in your land three days? Now, think it over and decide what answer I should take back to the One who sent me.”

“Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath on it with bloodshed to wipe out both man and animal from it,