2 Chronicles 7:13

Wycliffe Bible

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;

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;

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 Forsothe the Lord aperide to hym in the nyyt, and seide, Y haue herd thi preiere, and Y haue chose this place to me in to an hows of sacrifice. ¹³ 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; ¹⁴ forsothe if my puple is conuertid, on whiche my name is clepid, and if it bisechith me, and sekith my face, and doith penaunce of hise werste weies, Y schal here fro heuene, and Y schal be merciful to the synnes of hem, and Y schal heele the lond of hem. ¹⁵ And myn iyen schulen be openyd, and myn eeren schulen be reisid to the preiere of hym, that preieth in this place; ¹⁶ for Y haue chose, and halewid this place, that my name be there with outen ende, and that myn iyen and myn herte dwelle there in alle daies. ¹⁷ Also if thou gost bifore me, as Dauid thi fadir yede, and doist bi alle thingis whiche Y comaundide to thee, and kepist my riytwisnessis and domes, Y schal reise the trone of thi rewme, ¹⁸ as Y bihiyte to Dauid thi fadir, and seide, A man of thi generacioun schal not be takun awei, that schal be prince in Israel. ¹⁹ But if ye turnen awey, and forsake my riytwisnessis and my comaundementis whiche Y settide forth to you, and ye goen, and seruen alien goddis, and worschipen hem, ²⁰ Y schal drawe you awey fro my lond, which Y yaf to you, and Y schal caste awey fro my face this hows which Y haue bildid to my name, and Y schal yyue it in to a parable, and in to ensaumple to alle puplis. ²¹ And this hows schal be in to a prouerbe to alle men passynge forth; and thei schulen seie, wondringe, Whi dide the Lord so to this lond, and to this hows?

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
Forsothe Noe whanne he was of fyue hundrid yeer gendride Sem, Cham, and Jafeth.

Genesis 6:10
and gendride thre sones, Sem, Cam, and Jafeth.

Genesis 6:18
And Y schal sette my couenaunt of pees with thee; and thou schalt entre in to the schip, and thy sones, and thi wijf, and the wiues of thi sones schulen entre with thee.

Genesis 7:1
Also the Lord seide to Noe, Entre thou and al thin hous in to the schip, for Y seiy thee iust bifore me in this generacioun.

Genesis 7:2
Of alle clene lyuynge beestis thou schalt take bi seuene and bi seuene, male and female; forsothe of vnclene lyuynge beestis thou schalt take bi tweyne and bi tweyne, male and female;

Genesis 7:4
For yit and aftir seuene daies Y schal reyne on erthe fourti daies and fourti nyytis, and Y schal do awey al substaunce which Y made, fro the face of erthe.

Genesis 7:7
And Noe entride in to the schip, and hise sones, and hise wijf, and the wyues of his sones, entriden with him for the watris of the greet flood.

Genesis 7:9
bi tweyne and bi tweyne, male and female entriden to Noe in to the schip, as the Lord comaundide to Noe.

Genesis 7:18
The watris flowiden greetli, and filliden alle thingis in the face of erthe. Forsothe the schip was borun on the watris.

Genesis 7:19
And the watris hadden maistrie greetli on erthe, and alle hiye hillis vndur alle heuene weren hilid;

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.