Thematic Bible: National adversity, prayer in
Thematic Bible
Nation » National adversity, prayer in
this is the Lord’s declaration—
turn to Me with all your heart,
with fasting, weeping, and mourning.
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, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
So the people went to Bethel and sat there before God until evening. They wept loudly and bitterly, and cried out, "Why, Lord God of Israel, has it occurred that one tribe is [missing] in Israel today?" The next day the people got up early, built an altar there, and offered burnt offerings and fellowship offerings.