2 Chronicles 6:26 “When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have…”

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,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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;

World English Bible

“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and confess your name, and turn from their sin when you afflict them,

American Standard Version

When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them:

Geneva Bible 1599

When heauen shall be shut vp, and there shalbe no rayne, because they haue sinned against thee, and shall pray in this place, and confesse thy Name, and turne from their sinne, when thou doest afflict them,

Darby Translation

When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;

Young's Literal Translation

'In the heavens being restrained, and there is no rain, because they sin against Thee, and they have prayed towards this place, and confessed Thy name — from their sin they turn back because Thou dost afflict them —

Bible in Basic English

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:

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Cross references

“the heaven”

Leviticus 26:19 Deuteronomy 11:17 Deuteronomy 28:23 1 Kings 17:1–18 Luke 4:25

Leviticus 26:19 · BSB

I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

Deuteronomy 11:17 · BSB

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.

Deuteronomy 28:23 · BSB

The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

1 Kings 17:1–18 · BSB

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

Luke 4:25 · BSB

But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.

“there is no rain”

Isaiah 5:6 Ezekiel 14:13 Amos 4:4–9 Revelation 11:6 Isaiah 50:1 Isaiah 50:2

Isaiah 5:6 · BSB

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

Ezekiel 14:13 · BSB

“Son of man, if a land sins against Me by acting unfaithfully, and I stretch out My hand against it to cut off its supply of food, to send famine upon it, and to cut off from it both man and beast,

Amos 4:4–9 · BSB

“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.

Revelation 11:6 · BSB

These witnesses have power to shut the sky so that no rain will fall during the days of their prophecy, and power to turn the waters into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague as often as they wish.

Isaiah 50:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your…

Isaiah 50:2 · BSB

Why was no one there when I arrived? Why did no one answer when I called? Is My hand too short to redeem you? Or do I lack the strength to deliver you? Behold, My rebuke dries up the sea; I turn the rivers into a desert;…

“if they pray”

Jeremiah 14:1–9 Joel 1:13–20 Joel 2:15–17

Jeremiah 14:1–9 · BSB

This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

Joel 1:13–20 · BSB

Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

Joel 2:15–17 · BSB

Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.

“turn”

Proverbs 28:13 Ezekiel 18:27–32

Proverbs 28:13 · BSB

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

Ezekiel 18:27–32 · BSB

But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.

“thou dost”

2 Chronicles 33:12 2 Chronicles 33:13 Hosea 5:15 Hosea 6:1

2 Chronicles 33:12 · BSB

And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.

2 Chronicles 33:13 · BSB

And when he prayed to Him, the LORD received his plea and heard his petition. So He brought him back to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD is God.

Hosea 5:15 · BSB

Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

Hosea 6:1 · BSB

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

25then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers.

27then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.

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