2 Chronicles 7:13

God describes the disciplines He may send when His people sin: drought, locusts, or plague. It reminds Israel that calamities can be God's call to repentance.

Cross-references · 16

• 2 Chr 6:26–28When 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,
• Deut 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.
• Rev 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.
• Rev 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
• 2 Sam 24:13–15So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”
• Ezek 14:19–21Or if I send a plague into that land and pour out My wrath upon it through bloodshed, cutting off from it both man and beast,
• Job 12:14What He tears down cannot be rebuilt; the man He imprisons cannot be released.
• Joel 2:25I will repay you for the years eaten by locusts—the swarming locust, the young locust, the destroying locust, and the devouring locust—My great army that I sent against you.
• Exod 10:4–6But if you refuse to let My people go, I will bring locusts into your territory tomorrow.
• Joel 1:4–7What the devouring locust has left, the swarming locust has eaten; what the swarming locust has left, the young locust has eaten; and what the young locust has left, the destroying locust has eaten.
• Ps 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.
• Ps 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came—young locusts without number.
• Num 16:46–47Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, place fire from the altar in it, and add incense. Go quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, because wrath has come out from the LORD; the plague has begun.”
• Luke 4:25But I tell you truthfully that there were many widows in Israel in the time of Elijah, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and great famine swept over all the land.
• Job 11:10If He comes along to imprison you, or convenes a court, who can stop Him?
• Num 14:12I will strike them with a plague and destroy them—and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are.”

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