1 Kings 8:37

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:38

Listen when anyone in Israel truly feels sorry and sincerely prays with arms lifted towards your temple.

1 Chronicles 21:12

Will there be three years when the land won't grow enough food for its people? Or will your enemies constantly defeat you for three months? Or will the LORD send a horrible disease to strike your land for three days? Think about it and decide, because I have to give your answer to God who sent me.

2 Chronicles 20:9

They believed that whenever this land is struck by war or disease or famine, your people can pray to you at the temple, and you will hear their prayer and save them.

Psalm 78:46

God let worms and grasshoppers eat their crops.

Psalm 91:3

The Lord will keep you safe from secret traps and deadly diseases.

Jeremiah 32:2

At that time, the Babylonian army had surrounded Jerusalem, and I was in the prison at the courtyard of the palace guards.

Ezekiel 14:21

I am the LORD God, and I promise to punish Jerusalem severely. I will send war, starvation, wild animals, and deadly disease to slaughter its people and livestock.

Leviticus 26:16

I will punish you terribly, and you will be ruined. You will be struck with incurable diseases and with fever that leads to blindness and depression. Your enemies will eat the crops you plant,

Haggai 2:17

I made all your hard work useless by sending mildew, mould, and hail—but you still did not return to me, your LORD.

Deuteronomy 28:25

The LORD will let you be defeated by your enemies, and you will scatter in all directions. You will be a horrible sight for the other nations to see,