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 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;

And then the LORD'S wrath shall be kindled against you, and he shall shut up the heaven, that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

If he shall cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell in it.

But I tell you in truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut three years and six months when great famine was throughout all the land:

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that 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 prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.

I command

Else, if thou shalt refuse to let my people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring the locusts into thy border:

He spoke, and the locusts came, and caterpillars, and that without number,

That which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten; and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.

And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.

I send

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

And Moses said to Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire in it from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly to the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.

So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come upon thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thy enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now consider, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast: