1 Kings 8:35

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Suppose your people sin against you, and you punish them by holding back the rain. If they turn towards this temple and pray in your name and stop sinning,

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:10

After David had everyone counted, he felt guilty and told the LORD, “What I did was stupid and terribly wrong. LORD, please forgive me.”

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah was a prophet from Tishbe in Gilead. One day he went to King Ahab and said, “I'm a servant of the living LORD, the God of Israel. And I swear in his name that it won't rain until I say so. There won't even be any dew on the ground.”

1 Kings 8:33

Suppose your people Israel sin against you, and then an enemy defeats them. If they come to this temple and beg for forgiveness,

1 Kings 8:34

listen from your home in heaven. Forgive them and bring them back to the land you gave their ancestors.

2 Chronicles 6:24

Suppose your people Israel sin against you, and then an enemy defeats them. If they come to this temple and beg for forgiveness,

2 Chronicles 6:26

Suppose your people sin against you, and you punish them by holding back the rain. If they stop sinning and turn towards this temple to pray in your name,

Job 12:15

God can hold back the rain or send a flood,

Isaiah 5:6

It will turn into a desert, neither pruned nor hoed; it will be covered with thorns and briars. I will command the clouds not to send rain.

Isaiah 9:13

The people of Israel still did not turn back to the LORD All-Powerful and worship him.

Ezekiel 14:13

Ezekiel, son of man, suppose an entire nation sins against me, and I punish it by destroying the crops and letting its people and livestock starve to death.

Hosea 14:1

Israel, return! Come back to the LORD, your God. Sin has made you fall.

Leviticus 26:19

until your pride is completely crushed. I will hold back the rain, so the sky above you will be like iron, and the ground beneath your feet will be like copper.

Haggai 1:10

That's also why the dew doesn't fall and your harvest fails.

Zechariah 14:17

No rain will fall on the land of anyone in any country who refuses to go to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD All-Powerful.

Malachi 3:10

I am the LORD All-Powerful, and I challenge you to put me to the test. Bring the entire ten per cent into the storehouse, so there will be food in my house. Then I will open the windows of heaven and flood you with blessing after blessing.

Luke 4:25

Once during the time of Elijah there was no rain for three and a half years, and people everywhere were starving. There were many widows in Israel,

Romans 10:9

So you will be saved, if you honestly say, “Jesus is Lord”, and if you believe with all your heart that God raised him from death.

Romans 15:9

so that the Gentiles would praise God for being kind to them. It is just as the Scriptures say, “I will tell the nations about you, and I will sing praises to your name.”

Deuteronomy 11:16

But watch out! You will be tempted to turn your backs on the LORD. And if you worship other gods,

Deuteronomy 11:17

the LORD will become angry and keep the rain from falling. Nothing will grow in your fields, and you will die and disappear from the good land that the LORD is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The LORD will open the storehouses of the skies where he keeps the rain, and he will send rain on your land at just the right times. He will make you successful in everything you do. You will have plenty of money to lend to other nations, but you won't need to borrow any yourself.

Revelation 11:6

They have the power to lock up the sky and to keep rain from falling while they are prophesying. And whenever they want to, they can turn water to blood and cause all kinds of terrible troubles on earth.