Parallel Verses
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,
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,
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;
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;
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 And LORD appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard thy prayer, and have chosen this place to myself for a house of sacrifice. 13 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, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will 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 when thou do afflict them,
Exodus 10:4-6
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into thy border.
Numbers 14:12
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they.
Numbers 16:46-47
And Moses said to Aaron, Take thy censer, and put fire in it from off the altar, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them, for there is wrath gone out from LORD. The plague has be
Deuteronomy 11:17
and the anger of LORD be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there shall be no rain, and the land shall not yield its fruit, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which LORD gives you.
2 Samuel 24:13-15
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? Or will thou flee three months before thy foes while they pursue thee? Or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land?
Job 11:10
If he passes through, and shuts up, and all to judgment, then who can hinder him?
Job 12:14
Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again. He shuts up a man, and there can be no opening.
Psalm 105:34
He spoke, and the locust came, and the grasshopper, and that without number,
Psalm 107:34
a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
Ezekiel 14:19-21
Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
Joel 1:4-7
That which the palmer-worm has left the locust has eaten, and that which the locust has left the canker-worm has eaten, and that which the canker-worm has left the caterpillar has eaten.
Joel 2:25
And I will restore to you the years that the locust, the canker-worm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm has eaten--my great army which I sent among you.
Luke 4:25
But in truth I say to you, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up for three years and six months, when a great famine occurred on all the land.
Revelation 3:7
And to the agent of the congregation in Philadelphia write, These things says the Holy, the True, he who has the key of David, who opens, and none will shut it except he who opens, and none will open:
Revelation 11:6
These men have authority to shut the sky, so that it may not rain the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over the waters to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they may desire.