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2 Chronicles 6:26

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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,

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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:

KJV

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;

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This verse in 2 Chronicles 6

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

When the skies are shut and there is no rain

on 2 Chronicles 6:26-27

The third petition, “When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned,” matches 1 Kings 8:35-36 word for word. At 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah will announce neither dew nor rain, the judgment named here before any king has brought it on.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

But here he declares upon what inducements he undertook it, and they are such as not only justify, but magnify, the undertaking. He did it for the glory and honour of God; this was his highest and ultimate end in it. It was for the name of the Lord God of Israel (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This we also may, in faith, pray for, building upon the repeated declarations God has made of his readiness to accepts penitents. That God would bid the strangers welcome to this house, and answer their prayers (

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

This we may, in faith, pray for, for we are sure it shall be done. God sitteth on the throne judging right. That God would return in mercy to his people when they repented, and reformed, and sought unto him,

The words behind it

19 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּהֵעָצֵ֧רwhen are shut up

    beheatzerH6113 →47 times

  • הַשָּׁמַ֛יִםthe heavens

    hashamayimH8064 →421 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יִהְיֶ֥הit will be

    yihyehH1961 →3559 times

  • מָטָ֖רrain

    matarH4306 →38 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • יֶֽחֶטְאוּ־they will sin

    yechetu-H2398 →238 times

  • לָ֑ךְto you

    lakh

  • וְהִֽתְפַּלְל֞וּand they will pray

    vehitpaluH6419 →84 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמָּק֤וֹםthe place

    hamakomH4725 →401 times

  • הַזֶּה֙<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • וְהוֹד֣וּand they will praise

    vehoduH3034 →114 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • שְׁמֶ֔ךָname your

    shemekhaH8034 →864 times

  • מֵחַטָּאתָ֥םfrom sin their

    mechatatamH2403 →295 times

  • יְשׁוּב֖וּןthey will turn back !

    yeshuvunH7725 →1056 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • תַעֲנֵֽם׃you will afflict them

    taanemH6031 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Deuteronomy 11:17or 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.8 worksDeuteronomy 28:23The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.3 worksLeviticus 26:19I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,3 worksZechariah 14:17And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them.3 worksJeremiah 14:1–9This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:2 worksEzekiel 14:13“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,2 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Joel 1:13–20Put 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.2 worksJoel 2:15–17Blow the ram’s horn in Zion, consecrate a fast, proclaim a sacred assembly.2 worksHosea 5:15Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”2 worksAmos 4:4–9“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.2 worksEzekiel 18:27–32But if a wicked man turns from the wickedness he has committed and does what is just and right, he will save his life.2 worksRevelation 11:6These 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.2 worksProverbs 28:13He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.2 works2 Chronicles 33:12–13And in his distress, Manasseh sought the favor of the LORD his God and earnestly humbled himself before the God of his fathers.2 works1 Kings 17:1–18Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”2 worksIsaiah 50:1–2This 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 mother was sent away.2 worksIsaiah 5:6I 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.”2 works1 Kings 8:35When 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,2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 17:1

      Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in…

      Reached by 3 separate paths from here.

    • 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.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 1 Kings 8:35

      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…

    • Deuteronomy 6:15

      For the LORD your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise the anger of the LORD your God will be kindled against you, and He will wipe you off the face…

    • Deuteronomy 4:26

      I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you this day that you will quickly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. You will not live long upon it,…

  • Through

    Leviticus 26:19

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

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 28:23

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

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 28:23

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

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 26:19

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

    • Jeremiah 14:1–6

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

About 2 Chronicles

Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
Saphan Reading the Book of the Law to Josiah, Philip Galle, engraving after Maarten van Heemskerck, 1569, Royal Library of Belgium. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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