2 Chronicles 7:13

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—

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,

Literal Translation
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,

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

¹²And YHWH appears to Solomon by night and says to him, "I have heard your prayer, and have fixed on this place for Myself for a house of sacrifice. ¹³If 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—¹⁴and My people on whom My Name is called are humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land. ¹⁵Now My eyes are open and My ears attentive to the prayer of this place; ¹⁶and now, I have chosen and sanctified this house for My Name being there for all time; indeed, My eyes and My heart have been there [for] all the days. ¹⁷And you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and keep My statutes and My judgments— ¹⁸then I have established the throne of your kingdom, as I covenanted with your father David, saying, A man of yours is never cut off [from] ruling in Israel; ¹⁹and if you turn back—you—and have forsaken My statutes and My commands that I have placed before you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them—then I have plucked them from off My ground that I have given to them, ²⁰and this house that I have sanctified for My Name, I cast from before My face, and make it for a proverb and for a byword among all the peoples. ²¹And this house that has been high is an astonishment to everyone passing by it, and he has said, Why has YHWH done thus 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 is a son of five hundred years, and Noah begets Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:10
And Noah begets three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 6:18
And I have established My covenant with you, and you have come into the Ark—you, and your sons, and your wife, and your son's wives with you;

Genesis 7:1
And YHWH says to Noah, "Come, you and all your house, into the Ark, for I have seen you [are] righteous before Me in this generation;

Genesis 7:2
you take seven pairs from all the clean beasts to yourself, a male and its female; and of the beasts which are not clean—two, a male and its female;

Genesis 7:4
for after seven more days I am sending rain on the earth [for] forty days and forty nights, and have wiped away all the substance that I have made from off the face of the ground."

Genesis 7:7
And Noah goes—and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him—into the Ark, out of the presence of the waters of the flood;

Genesis 7:9
they have come to Noah two by two into the Ark, a male and a female, as God has commanded Noah.

Genesis 7:18
and the waters are mighty and multiply exceedingly on the earth; and the Ark goes on the face of the waters.

Genesis 7:19
And the waters have been very, very mighty on the earth, and all the high mountains are covered which [are] under the whole heavens;

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.