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Green's Literal Translation

2 Chronicles 7:13

If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain, and if I command the locusts to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Chastisement;   Drought;   God;   Locust;   Nation;   Prayer;   Rain;   Solomon;   The Topic Concordance - Calling;   Forgiveness;   Healing;   Hearing;   Humbleness;   Prayer;   Seeking;   Turning;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Afflictions Made Beneficial;   Judgments;   Locust, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Grasshopper;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Forgiveness;   Heaven, Heavens, Heavenlies;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Insects;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Chronicles, I;   Locust;   Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Locust;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Grasshopper;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Locust;  

Parallel Translations

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,
Hebrew Names Version
If I shut up the sky so that there is no rain, or if I command the arbeh 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;
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,
New Century Version
"I may stop the sky from sending rain. I may command the locusts to destroy the land. I may send sicknesses to my people.
New English Translation
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,
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,
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,
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;
Geneva Bible (1587)
If I shut the heauen that there be no raine, or if I commaunde the grashopper to deuoure the lande, or if I sende 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,
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,
Contemporary English Version
Suppose I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat the crops or make my people suffer with deadly diseases.
Complete Jewish Bible
If I shut up the sky, so that there is no rain; or if I order locusts to devour the land; or if I send an epidemic of sickness among 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;
Easy-to-Read Version
When I close the sky so that there is no rain, or command the locusts to destroy the land, or send sicknesses to my people
George Lamsa Translation
If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence 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,
Lexham English 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,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Beholde, whan I shut the heaue so yt it raine not, or commaunde the greshopper to cosume the londe, or cause a pestilence to come amonge 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;
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;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
If I shut vp heauen that there be no rayne, or if I commaund the locustes to deuour the lande, or if I sende pestilence among my people:
JPS Old Testament (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;
King James Version (1611)
If I shut vp heauen that there bee no raine, or if I command the locusts to deuoure the land, or if I send pestilence among my people:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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;
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;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If Y close heuene, and reyn cometh not doun, and if Y sende, and comaunde to a locuste, that he deuoure the lond, and if Y send pestilence in to my puple;
Update Bible 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;
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;
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 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.
New Life Bible
If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, and if I tell the locust to destroy the land, or send disease upon My people,
New Revised Standard
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,
J.B. Rotherham 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:
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:
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,
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 --
New American Standard Bible (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,

Contextual Overview

12 And Jehovah appeared to Solomon by night, and said to him, I have heard your prayer, and have chosen this place to Myself for a house of sacrifice. 13 If I shut up the heavens and there is no rain, and if I command the locusts to consume the land, and if I send pestilence among My people, 14 and My people, on whom My name is called, shall be humbled, and shall pray, and shall seek My face, and shall turn back from their evil ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 15 Now My eyes shall be open, and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place; 16 and now I have chosen and sanctified this house for My name to be there forever; yea, My eyes and My heart shall be there perpetually. 17 And you, if you shall walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and shall keep My statutes and My judgments, 18 then I shall establish the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with your father David, saying, There shall not be cut off a man to you who rules in Israel. 19 And if you turn away, and you shall forsake My commandments and My statutes that I have placed before you, and shall go and serve other gods and shall bow yourselves to them, 20 then I shall pluck them up from off My land that I have given them, and this house that I have sanctified for My name I shall cast away from before My face, and I shall give it for a proverb and a byword among all the nations. 21 And this house that was on high shall be a wonder to everyone who passes by it, they shall shudder and say, Why has Jehovah done this to this land and to this house?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

If I shut up heaven: 2 Chronicles 6:26-28, Deuteronomy 11:17, Job 11:10, Job 12:14, Psalms 107:34, Luke 4:25, Revelation 3:7, Revelation 11:6

I command: Exodus 10:4-6, Psalms 105:34, Joel 1:4-7, Joel 2:25

I send: Numbers 14:12, Numbers 16:46, Numbers 16:47, 2 Samuel 24:13-15, Ezekiel 14:19-21

Reciprocal: Joel 2:12 - turn Amos 4:7 - I have Zechariah 14:17 - even

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
And Noah was five hundred years old. And Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:10
And Noah fathered three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18
And I will establish My covenant with you. And you shall come into the ark, you and your sons and your wife and your sons' wives with you.
Genesis 7:1
And Jehovah said to Noah, You and all your house come into the ark, for I have seen you righteous before Me in this generation.
Genesis 7:2
You shall take to yourself from every clean animal by sevens, male and female, and from the animal that is not clean by two, male and female.
Genesis 7:4
For after seven more days I will cause it to rain on the earth forty days and forty nights and will wipe away every living substance that I have made from off the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:9
two by two, as God had commanded Noah, they went into the ark, male and female.
Genesis 7:18
And the waters prevailed, and were greatly increased on the earth. And the ark floated on the face of the waters.
Genesis 7:19
And the waters prevailed, exceedingly violent on the earth, and all the high mountains under the heavens were covered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 2 Chronicles 7:13. Or if I send pestilence — "The angel of death." - Targum.


 
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