Parallel Verses

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 -

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;

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;

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 the LORD appeared to Solomon by night and said to him, "I have heard thy petition and have chosen this place for myself to be a house of sacrifice. 13 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 - 14 Yet if my people that are named after my name, shall humble themselves and pray and seek my presence, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and be merciful to their sins, and will heal their land.



Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:26-28

If heaven be shut up, that there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray at this place and confess thy name and turn from their sins at thy scourging;

Exodus 10:4-6

If thou wilt not let my people go: behold, tomorrow will I bring grasshoppers into thy land,

Numbers 14:12

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

Numbers 16:46-47

And Moses said unto Aaron, "Take a censer and put fire therein out of the altar, and pour on cense, and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them. For there is wrath gone out from the LORD, and there is a plague begun."

Deuteronomy 11:17

and then the wrath of the LORD wax hot upon you and shut up the heaven that there be no rain and that your land yield not her fruit, and that ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

2 Samuel 24:13-15

And Gad came to David and showed him and said unto him, "Whether wilt thou have seven years hunger in thy land, or that thou flee three months before thine enemies and they following thee, or that there be three days pestilence in thy land? Now understand, and see what word I shall bring again to him that sent me."

Job 11:10

Though he turn all things upside down, close them in, or thrust them together, who dare check him therefore?

Job 12:14

If he break down a thing, who can set it up again? If he shut a thing, who will open it?

Psalm 105:34

He spake the word, and the grasshoppers came, and caterpillars innumerable,

Psalm 107:34

A fruitful land maketh he barren, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.

Ezekiel 14:19-21

If I send a pestilence into the land, and pour out my sore indignation upon it in blood, so that I root out of it both man and beast,

Joel 1:4-7

Look, what the caterpillar hath left, that hath the grasshopper eaten up; what the grasshopper left, that hath the locust eaten up; and what the locust hath left, that hath the blasting consumed.

Joel 2:25

And I will restore you again, with my great power which I have sent unto you, the years which the locusts and caterpillars have devoured.

Luke 4:25

But I tell you of a truth, Many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when heaven was shut three years and six months, when great famishment was throughout all the land;

Revelation 3:7

"And write unto the tidings-bringer of the congregation of Philadelphia, 'This saith he that is holy and true, which hath the key of David; which openeth and no man shutteth, and shutteth and no man openeth.

Revelation 11:6

These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophesying: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all manner plagues, as often as they will.

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