Thematic Bible: National adversity, prayer in
Thematic Bible
Nation » National adversity, prayer in
"Yet even now," declares the LORD, "Turn back to me with your whole heart, with fasting, tears, and mourning.
Verse Concepts
"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, when my people humble themselves the ones who are called by my name and pray, seek me, and turn away from their evil practices, I myself will listen from heaven, I will pardon their sins, and I will restore their land.
So the people went to Bethel, sat before God until dusk, where they cried out loud and wept bitterly. "Why, LORD God of Israel," they asked him, "is one tribe missing from Israel?" The next day, the people got up early, built an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.