Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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;
Holman Bible
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on My people,
International Standard Version
"I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for a sacrificial temple to me. Whenever I close the skies so there is no rain, or whenever I command locusts to lay waste to the land, or whenever I send epidemics among my people,
A Conservative Version
If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people,
American Standard Version
If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
Amplified
If I shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or if I command locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence and plague among My people,
Bible in Basic English
If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;
Julia Smith Translation
If I shall shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and if I shall command upon the locust to consume the land, and if I shall send death upon my people;
King James 2000
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;
Lexham Expanded Bible
When I hold back the heavens so that there is not rain, and when I command the locust to devour the earth, and if I send disease among my people,
Modern King James verseion
If I shut up the heavens, and there is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people;
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover, 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 -
NET Bible
When I close up the sky so that it doesn't rain, or command locusts to devour the land's vegetation, or send a plague among my people,
New Heart English Bible
"If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
The Emphasized Bible
If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I lay command on the locust, to devour the land, - or if I send pestilence, amongst my people:
Webster
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;
World English Bible
"If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;
Youngs Literal Translation
If I restrain the heavens and there is no rain, and if I lay charge on the locust to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people --
Themes
Afflictions made beneficial » In humbling us
Drought » Sent by God as a judgment
Forgiveness » Who shall be forgiven
Humbleness » The reward for humbling yourself
Judgments » May be averted by » Prayer
Locusts » The jews » Promised deliverance from the plague of, on humiliation, &c
Nation » National adversity, prayer in
Rain » Answer to prayer for, promised
Solomon » Covenant renewed in a vision after the dedication of the temple
Topics
Interlinear
References
Watsons
Word Count of 20 Translations in 2 Chronicles 7:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Charge To Solomon
12 Then Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him: I have heard thy prayer, and I have chosen for myself this place for a house of sacrifice. 13 If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; 14 and my people, who are called by my name, humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.
Names
Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:26-28
When the heavens are 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, because thou hast afflicted them;
Exodus 10:4-6
For, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, I will to-morrow bring locusts into thy borders;
Numbers 14:12
I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
Numbers 16:46-47
And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put fire thereon from off the altar, and lay on incense, and carry it quickly to the assembly, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah: the plague is begun.
Deuteronomy 11:17
and Jehovah's wrath kindle against you, and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain, and that the ground yield not its produce, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you.
2 Samuel 24:13-15
And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
Job 11:10
If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him?
Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening.
Psalm 105:34
He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number;
Psalm 107:34
A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
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,
Joel 1:4-7
that which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
Joel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you.
Luke 4:25
But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,
Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith the holy, the true; he that has the key of David, he who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open:
Revelation 11:6
These have power to shut the heaven that no rain may fall during the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth as often as they will with every plague.