2 Chronicles 7:13
King James Version (KJV)
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;
American Standard Version (ASV)
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;
World English Bible (WEB)
"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;
2 Chronicles 7:13 Cross References
And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
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;
Then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou hast taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon thy land, which thou hast given unto thy people for an inheritance.
If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness there be:
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;