Deuteronomy 11:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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.

Cross References

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 8:35

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,

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,

2 Chronicles 7:13

Suppose I hold back the rain or send locusts to eat the crops or make my people suffer with deadly diseases.

Job 12:15

God can hold back the rain or send a flood,

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.

Leviticus 26:20

All your hard work will be for nothing—and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit.

Amos 4:7

Three months before harvest, I kept back the rain. Sometimes I would let it fall on one town or field but not on another, and pastures dried up.

Deuteronomy 31:20

I am bringing them into the land that I promised their ancestors. It is a land rich with milk and honey, and the Israelites will have more than enough food to eat. But they will get fat and turn their backs on me and start worshipping other gods. The Israelites will reject me and break the agreement that I made with them.

Deuteronomy 6:15

If you worship other gods, the LORD will be furious and wipe you off the face of the earth. The LORD your God is with you,