2 Chronicles 6:26

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place, confess Your name, and turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard 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;

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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:

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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;

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Whan the heauen is shut vp, so that it rayne not (for so moch as they haue synned agaynst the) and yf they make their prayer in this place, and knowlege thy name, and turne from their synnes (whan thou hast brought them lowe)

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    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,

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    When heauen is shut vp, and there be no rayne, because they haue sinned against thee: yet if they pray in this place, and confesse thy name, and repent from their sinne for the which thou chastenest them:

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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;

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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 do afflict them:

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    `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 --

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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:

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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:

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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:

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "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:

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    “The time will come when the skies are shut up tightly and no rain falls because your people sinned against you. When they direct their prayers toward this place, renew their allegiance to you, and turn away from their sin because you punish them,

Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:19 : 19 And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as bronze:
  • Deut 11:17 : 17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and He shuts up the heaven, so there is no rain, and the land yields no fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.
  • Deut 28:23 : 23 And your heaven that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1-9 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain for these years, except by my word. 2 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 3 Get yourself away from here, and turn eastward, and hide by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 4 And it will be that you shall drink from the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed you there. 5 So he went and did according to the word of the LORD: for he went and lived by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. 6 And the ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning, and bread and meat in the evening; and he drank from the brook. 7 And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. 8 And the word of the LORD came to him, saying, 9 Arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain you. 10 So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow was there gathering sticks: and he called to her, and said, Please, bring me a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. 11 And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Please, bring me a morsel of bread in your hand. 12 And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I do not have a cake, but only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. 13 And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go and do as you have said: but make a little cake for me first, and bring it to me, and afterward, make some for you and your son. 14 For thus says the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, nor shall the jar of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sends rain upon the earth. 15 And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her household, ate many days. 16 And the barrel of meal did not waste, nor did the jar of oil fail, according to the word of the LORD, which He spoke by Elijah. 17 And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick; and his sickness was so severe, that there was no breath left in him. 18 And she said to Elijah, What have I to do with you, O man of God? Have you come to remind me of my sin, and to kill my son?
  • 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 And when he was in distress, he sought the LORD his God and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 And he prayed to him, and he was entreated of him and heard his supplication, and brought him back to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that the LORD was God.
  • Prov 28:13 : 13 He who covers his sins shall not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.
  • Isa 5:6 : 6 And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but briers and thorns shall come up: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
  • Isa 50:1-2 : 1 Thus says the LORD, Where is the certificate of your mother's divorce, whom I have put away? Or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities you have sold yourselves, and for your transgressions your mother is put away. 2 Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink because there is no water and die for thirst.
  • Jer 14:1-9 : 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. 2 Judah mourns, and its gates languish; they are in mourning on the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem has gone up. 3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the water; they came to the wells and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads. 4 Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain on the earth, the farmers were ashamed, they covered their heads. 5 Even the deer gave birth in the field, and abandoned it, because there was no grass. 6 And the wild donkeys stood on the high places, they sniffed the wind like jackals; their eyes failed because there was no grass. 7 O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, act for Your name's sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against You. 8 O Hope of Israel, its Savior in time of trouble, why should You be as a stranger in the land, and as a traveler who turns aside to stay for a night? 9 Why should You be as a man astonished, as a mighty man who cannot save? Yet You, O LORD, are in the midst of us, and we are called by Your name; do not leave us.
  • Ezek 14:13 : 13 Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out my hand upon it and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it;
  • Ezek 18:27-32 : 27 Again, when the wicked man turns away from his wickedness that he has committed, and does what is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. 28 Because he considers and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. 29 Yet says the house of Israel, ‘The way of the Lord is not equal.’ O house of Israel, are not My ways equal? Are not your ways unequal? 30 Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord GOD. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. 31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you have transgressed; and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, O house of Israel? 32 For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies, says the Lord GOD: therefore turn yourselves, and live.
  • Hos 5:15-6:1 : 15 I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face: in their affliction they will seek me earnestly. 1 Come, and let us return to the LORD: for he has torn, and he will heal us; he has struck us, and he will bind us up.
  • Joel 1:13-20 : 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God. 14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD, 15 Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as destruction from the Almighty it shall come. 16 Is not the food cut off before our eyes, yes, joy and gladness from the house of our God? 17 The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered. 18 How the animals groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. 19 O LORD, to you will I cry: for the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. 20 The animals of the field cry also to you: for the rivers are dried up, and the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
  • Joel 2:15-17 : 15 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly. 16 Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those who nurse at the breast. Let the bridegroom go forth from his chamber, and the bride out of her room. 17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare your people, O LORD, and give not your heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, Where is their God?
  • Amos 4:4-9 : 4 Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgressions; bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes every three years: 5 And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this pleases you, O children of Israel, says the Lord GOD. 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD. 7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece where it did not rain withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD. 9 I have struck you with blight and mildew: when your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees increased, the locust devoured them: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
  • Luke 4:25 : 25 But I tell you the truth, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine swept throughout all the land;
  • Rev 11:6 : 6 These have power to shut heaven, that it does not rain in the days of their prophecy; and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Kgs 8:33-38
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    95%

    33When your people Israel are defeated before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make supplication to you in this house:

    34Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again into the land which you gave to their fathers.

    35When heaven 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:

    36Then hear in heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, that you teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

    37If there is in the land famine, if there is pestilence, blight, mildew, locust, or if there is caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;

    38Whatever prayer and supplication is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, who shall each know the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:

  • 2 Chr 6:27-30
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    27Then hear from heaven, and forgive the sin of your servants, and of your people Israel, when you have taught them the good way, wherein they should walk; and send rain upon your land, which you have given to your people for an inheritance.

    28If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillars; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is:

    29Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made by any man, or by all your people Israel, when everyone knows his own plague and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

    30Then hear from heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and render to every man according to all his ways, whose heart you know; (for you only know the hearts of the children of men:)

  • 2 Chr 6:19-25
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    19Have respect therefore to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to listen to the cry and the prayer which your servant prays before you:

    20That your eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place where you have said that you would put your name there; to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place.

    21Listen therefore to the supplications of your servant, and of your people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear from your dwelling place, even from heaven, and when you hear, forgive.

    22If a man sins against his neighbor, and an oath is laid upon him to make him swear, and the oath comes before your altar in this house;

    23Then hear from heaven, and act, and judge your servants, by recompensing the wicked, by bringing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

    24And if your people Israel be defeated before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall return and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;

    25Then hear from the heavens, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to them and to their fathers.

  • 2 Chr 6:34-40
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    34If your people go out to war against their enemies by the way that you shall send them, and they pray to you toward this city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name;

    35Then hear from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

    36If they sin against you, (for there is no man who does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them over before their enemies, and they carry them away captive to a land far off or near;

    37Yet if they come to themselves in the land where they are carried captive, and turn and pray to you in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done wrong, and have dealt wickedly;

    38If they return to you with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, where they have been carried captive, and pray toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, and toward the city which you have chosen, and toward the house which I have built for your name:

    39Then hear from the heavens, even from your dwelling place, their prayer and their supplications, and maintain their cause, and forgive your people who have sinned against you.

    40Now, my God, I beseech you, let your eyes be open, and let your ears be attentive to the prayer that is made in this place.

  • 2 Chr 7:13-15
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    13If 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;

    14If My people, who are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

    15Now My eyes shall be open, and My ears attentive to the prayer made in this place.

  • 1 Kgs 8:45-50
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    75%

    45Then hear in heaven their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

    46If they sin against you, (for there is no man that does not sin,) and you are angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so that they carry them away captives to the land of the enemy, far or near;

    47Yet if they shall come to themselves in the land where they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;

    48And so return to you with all their heart, and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies, who led them away captive, and pray to you toward their land, which you gave to their fathers, the city which you have chosen, and the house which I have built for your name:

    49Then hear their prayer and their supplication in heaven your dwelling place, and maintain their cause,

    50And forgive your people that have sinned against you, and all their transgressions in which they have transgressed against you, and give them compassion before those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

  • 1 Kgs 8:30
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    30And listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear in heaven your dwelling place: and when you hear, forgive.

  • Neh 1:6
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    6Let Your ear now be attentive, and Your eyes open, that You may hear the prayer of Your servant, which I pray before You now, day and night, for the children of Israel Your servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against You: both I and my father's house have sinned.

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    16LORD, in trouble they have visited You, they poured out a prayer when Your chastening was upon them.

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    40If they shall confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary to me;

  • 2 Chr 20:9
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    9If disaster comes upon us, as the sword, judgment, or pestilence, or famine, we will stand before this house and in Your presence (for Your name is in this house) and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save us.

  • Deut 11:17
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    17And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and He shuts up the heaven, so there is no rain, and the land yields no fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD gives you.

  • Jer 14:22
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  • Jas 5:18
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    18And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.

  • Job 35:6
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  • Jer 14:20
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    20We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers; for we have sinned against You.

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