2 Chronicles 7:13
New International Version
“When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people,

New Living Translation
At times I might shut up the heavens so that no rain falls, or command grasshoppers to devour your crops, or send plagues among you.

English Standard Version
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,

Berean Standard Bible
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

King James Bible
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 King James Version
When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or 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 a plague among My people,

NASB 1995
“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,

NASB 1977
“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,

Legacy Standard Bible
If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people,

Amplified Bible
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,

Christian Standard Bible
If I shut 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,

Holman Christian Standard 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,

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;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
If I shall choose, I shall restrain the Heavens and rain will not descend, and if I wish, I shall issue command over the locusts and they shall consume the land, and if I shall choose, I will stretch out slaughter among my people.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
If I should restrain the heaven and there should be no rain, and if I should command the locust to devour the trees, and if I should send pestilence upon my people;

Contemporary English Version
Suppose I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat the crops or make my people suffer with deadly diseases.

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I shut up heaven, and there fall no rain, or if I give orders, and command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people:

English Revised Version
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
I may shut the sky so that there is no rain, or command grasshoppers to devour the countryside, or send an epidemic among my people.

Good News Translation
Whenever I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat up the crops or send an epidemic on my people,

International Standard Version
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,

JPS Tanakh 1917
If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people;

Literal Standard Version
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—

Majority Standard Bible
If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

New American Bible
If I close heaven so that there is no rain, if I command the locust to devour the land, 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 Revised Standard Version
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence 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 a plague among my people;

Webster's Bible Translation
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,

Young's 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 --

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The LORD's Response to Solomon
12the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice. 13If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, 14and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 11:17
or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

2 Chronicles 6:26
When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

Amos 4:7
"I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.


Treasury of Scripture

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;

If I shut up heaven

2 Chronicles 6:26-28
When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them; …

Deuteronomy 11:17
And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.

Job 11:10
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

I command

Exodus 10:4-6
Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast: …

Psalm 105:34
He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,

Joel 1:4-7
That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten…

I send

Numbers 14:12
I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

Numbers 16:46,47
And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun…

2 Samuel 24:13-15
So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me…

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2 Chronicles 7
1. God having given testimony to Solomon's prayer by fire from heaven,
2. and glory in the temple, the people worship him
4. Solomon's solemn sacrifice
8. Solomon having kept the feasts of tabernacles and dedication, dismisses the people
12. God appearing to Solomon, gives him promises upon condition














(13) If I shut up heaven that there be no rain.--Deuteronomy 11:17; 2Chronicles 6:26.

If.--H?n, as in Jeremiah 3:1; Isaiah 54:15.

The locusts.--H?g?b, a winged and edible species (Leviticus 11:22). In 2Chronicles 6:28, two other kinds, the 'arbeh and h?sil, were mentioned. . . .

Verses 13-15. - These three verses (the counterparts of 2 Chronicles 6:26, 28, 40) are not in the parallel. Although we can scarcely trace the principle of their selection from the seven parts of the prayer, they would seem to have been selected from the original work, as samples of a reply which presumably embraced reference to all the seven. When, in ver. 14, it is said, I will heal their land, the telling expression, according to the Authorized Version, must be understood to refer to the removing of drought by rain. On the other hand, the Authorized Version is, in ver. 15, unfortunate in the unnecessary and misleading insertion of the italics found there, and in the use of the preposition "in" for of, the simple case construct, which is manifestly what is wanted and intended. It was not absolutely essential that prayer should be made in the place. How many references there are to prayer being made from a distance toward the place!

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
If
הֵ֣ן (hên)
Interjection
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

I close
אֶֽעֱצֹ֤ר (’e·‘ĕ·ṣōr)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6113: To inclose, to hold back, to maintain, rule, assemble

the sky
הַשָּׁמַ֙יִם֙ (haš·šā·ma·yim)
Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 8064: Heaven, sky

so there is
יִהְיֶ֣ה (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

no
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

rain,
מָטָ֔ר (mā·ṭār)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4306: Rain

or if
וְהֵן־ (wə·hên-)
Conjunctive waw | Interjection
Strong's 2005: Lo! behold!

I command
אֲצַוֶּ֥ה (’ă·ṣaw·weh)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order

the locust
חָגָ֖ב (ḥā·ḡāḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2284: Locust, grasshopper

to devour
לֶאֱכ֣וֹל (le·’ĕ·ḵō·wl)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 398: To eat

the land,
הָאָ֑רֶץ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land

or if
וְאִם־ (wə·’im-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

I send
אֲשַׁלַּ֥ח (’ă·šal·laḥ)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular
Strong's 7971: To send away, for, out

a plague
דֶּ֖בֶר (de·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1698: A pestilence

among My people,
בְּעַמִּֽי׃ (bə·‘am·mî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock


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