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 6:26–28“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;
• Deut 11:17and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky, so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
• Rev 11:6These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
• Rev 3:7“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things:
• 2 Sam 24:13–15So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
• Ezek 14:19–21“Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my wrath on it in blood, to cut off from it man and animal;
• Job 12:14Behold, he breaks down, and it can’t be built again. He imprisons a man, and there can be no release.
• Joel 2:25I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten, the great locust, the grasshopper, and the caterpillar, my great army, which I sent among you.
• Exod 10:4–6Or else, if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
• Joel 1:4–7What the swarming locust has left, the great locust has eaten. What the great locust has left, the grasshopper has eaten. What the grasshopper has left, the caterpillar has eaten.
• Ps 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
• Ps 105:34He spoke, and the locusts came, and the grasshoppers, without number,
• Num 16:46–47Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer, and put fire from off the altar in it, and lay incense on it, and carry it quickly to the congregation, and make atonement for them; for wrath has gone out from Yahweh! The plague has begun.”
• Luke 4:25But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
• Job 11:10If he passes by, or confines, or convenes a court, then who can oppose him?
• Num 14:12I will strike them with the pestilence, and disinherit them, and will make of you a nation greater and mightier than they.”

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