Parallel Verses

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;

New American Standard Bible

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,

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;

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;

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 --

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Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
If
הן 
hen 
lo, behold, if, or if, though
Usage: 99

I shut up
עצר 
`atsar 
Usage: 46

שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

that there be no rain
מטר 
Matar 
Usage: 38

or if I command
צוה 
Tsavah 
Usage: 494

the locusts
חגב 
Chagab 
Usage: 5

to devour
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

the land
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

or if I send
שׁלח 
Shalach 
Usage: 848

דּבר 
Deber 
Usage: 49

References

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Context Readings

God's Charge To Solomon

12 And Jehovah will be seen to Solomon in the night, and he will say to him, I heard thy prayer, and I chose in this place for me for a house of sacrifice. 13 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; 14 And if my people which my name was called upon them shall be humbled and pray and seek my face, and turn back from their evil ways; and I will hear from the heavens and forgive to their sin, and I will heal their land.



Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:26-28

In shutting up the heavens and there was no rain, because they sinned against thee; if they prayed to this place, and confessed thy name, they shall turn back from their sin when thou wilt humble them.

Exodus 10:4-6

For if thou refusest to send forth my people, behold me bringing to-morrow the locust into thy bounds.

Numbers 14:12

I will strike them with death, and I will destroy them, and I will make thee into a great nation, and strong above them.

Numbers 16:46-47

And Moses will say to Aaron, Take a censer and give upon it fire from off the altar, and put incense, and go quickly to the assembly, and expiate for them: for anger went forth from before Jehovah; for it began smiting.

Deuteronomy 11:17

And the anger of Jehovah kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens and there shall not be rain, and the land shall not give her produce, and ye perished quickly from off the good land that Jehovah gave to you.

2 Samuel 24:13-15

And Gad will come to David and announce to him, and say to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? and if three mouths to flee before thine adversaries, they pursuing thee? and if death to be three days in thy land? now know, and see what word I shall turn back to him sending me.

Job 11:10

If he shall pass on, and shut up, and gather together, who shall turn him back.

Job 12:14

Behold, he will pull down and it shall not be built up: he will shut up against man and it shall not be opened.

Psalm 105:34

He said, and the locust will come and the feeder, and no number.

Psalm 107:34

A land of fruit to saltness, for the evil of those dwelling in it

Ezekiel 14:19-21

Or I shall send death to that land, and I poured out my wrath upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and cattle

Joel 1:4-7

The residue of the creeping locust the common locust ate; and the residue of the common locust the feeder ate; and the residue of the feeder the devourer ate.

Joel 2:25

And I requited to you the years which the common locust ate, the feeder, and the devourer, and the creeping locust, my great army which I sent among you.

Luke 4:25

And I tell you of a truth, many widows were in the days of Elias in Israel, When heaven was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine Was upon all the land;

Revelation 3:7

And to the messenger of the church in Philadelphia write; Thus says the holy, the true, he having the key of David, he opening, and no one shuts; and he shuts, and no one opens;

Revelation 11:6

These have power to shut up heaven, that the rain should not wet in the days of their prophecy: and they have power over the waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every blow, as often as they wish.

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