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 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;
• Deut 11:17And 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.
• Rev 11:6These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
• Rev 3:7And 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;
• 2 Sam 24:13–15So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days’ pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.
• Ezek 14:19–21Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast:
• Job 12:14Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.
• Joel 2:25And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.
• Exod 10:4–6Else, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, to morrow will I bring the locusts into thy coast:
• Joel 1:4–7That which the palmerworm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten.
• Ps 107:34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
• Ps 105:34He spake, and the locusts came, and caterpillers, and that without number,
• Num 16:46–47And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
• Luke 4:25But 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;
• Job 11:10If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?
• Num 14:12I will smite them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of thee a greater nation and mightier than they.

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