Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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;

Bible References

If i shut up heaven

Luke 4:25
There were, doubtless, many widows in Israel in Elijah's days, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, and a severe famine prevailed throughout the country;
Revelation 3:7
To the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write:-- "These are the words of him who is holy and true, who holds 'the Key of David, who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one opens':--
Revelation 11:6
These men have the power to close the heavens, that 'no rain may fall' during the time that they are teaching; and they have power 'to turn the streams into blood, and to smite the land with any Curse,' whenever they will.