1 Kings 8:35

Lighthouse Bible 2006

When heaven 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:

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:10

And David’s heart struck him after he had numbered the people. And David said to the LORD, I have sinned greatly in what I have done: and now, I plead with you, O LORD, take away the iniquity of your servant; for I have done very foolishly.

2 Samuel 24:13

So 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 enemies, while they pursue you? or that there be three days’ pestilence in your land? now advise me, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.

1 Kings 8:33

When your people Israel be struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you, and shall turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray, and make requests unto you in this house:

1 Kings 8:34

Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of your people Israel, and bring them again to the land which you gave to their fathers.

2 Chronicles 6:24

And if your people Israel be put to the worse before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; and shall return and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;

2 Chronicles 6:26

When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them;

Job 12:15

Behold, he withholds the waters, and they dry up: also he sends them out, and they overturn the earth.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor dug; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Isaiah 9:13

For the people do not turn to him that strikes them, neither do they seek the LORD of hosts.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when the land sins against me by trespassing greatly, then will I stretch out my hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

Hosea 14:1

O Israel, return to the LORD your God; for you have fallen by your iniquity.

Leviticus 26:19

And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heaven over you is held back from dew, and the earth is held back from her fruit.

Zechariah 14:17

And it shall be, that whoever will not come up of all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.

Malachi 3:10

Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and prove me now hereby, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.

Luke 4:25

But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

Romans 10:9

That if you shall confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and shall believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

Romans 15:9

And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this reason I will confess you among the Gentiles, and sing unto your name.

Deuteronomy 11:16

Be careful that your heart is not deceived, and you turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

Deuteronomy 11:17

And then the LORD’S anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land does not yield her fruit; and lest you perish quickly off of the good land which the LORD gives you.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The LORD shall open to you his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand: and you shall lend to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

Revelation 11:6

These have power to shut heaven, so that it does not rain in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they desire.