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

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;

and then the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you and shut up the heaven that there be no rain and that your land yield not her fruit, and that ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

Though he turn all things upside down, close them in, or thrust them together, who dare check him therefore?

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

But I tell you of a truth, Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was shut three years and six months, when great famishment was throughout all the land;

"And write unto the tidings-bringer of the congregation of Philadelphia, 'This saith he that is holy and true, which hath the key of David; which openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophesying: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all manner plagues, as often as they will.

I command

If thou wilt not let my people go: behold, tomorrow will I bring grasshoppers into thy land,

He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable,

Look, what the caterpillar hath left, that hath the grasshopper eaten up; what the grasshopper left, that hath the locust eaten up; and what the locust hath left, that hath the blasting consumed.

And I will restore you again, with my great power which I have sent unto you, the years which the locusts and caterpillars have devoured.

I send

I will smite them with the pestilence and destroy them, and will make of thee a greater nation and a mightier than they."

And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun."

And Gad came to David and showed him and said unto him, "Whether wilt thou have seven years hunger in thy land, or that thou flee three months before thine enemies and they following thee, or that there be three days pestilence in thy land? Now understand, and see what word I shall bring again to him that sent me."

If I send a pestilence into the land, and pour out my sore indignation upon it in blood, so that I root out of it both man and beast,