1 Kings 8:35

Modern English Version

“When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against You, if they pray toward this place and call upon Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Cross References

2 Samuel 24:10

Now the heart of David struck him after he had counted the people. David said to the Lord, “I have sinned greatly by what I have done. Now may the Lord take away the iniquity of your servant, for I have behaved very foolishly.”

2 Samuel 24:13

So Gad came to David and told him. He said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or shall you flee three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days of plague in your land? Now consider and advise what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.”

1 Kings 17:1

Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the inhabitants of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord God of Israel lives before whom I stand, there will not be dew or rain these years except by my word.”

1 Kings 8:33

“When Your people Israel are defeated by their enemies, because they have sinned against You, and they turn back to You and call upon Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house,

1 Kings 8:34

then may You hear 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

“If Your people Israel are struck before enemies because they have sinned against You, and they return and confess Your name and pray and seek Your favor in this house,

2 Chronicles 6:26

“When the sky is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

Job 12:15

Surely, He withholds the waters, and they dry up; also He sends them out, and they overthrow the earth.

Isaiah 5:6

And I will lay it waste: It shall not be pruned or dug, but briers and thorns shall come up. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

Isaiah 9:13

For the people do not turn to Him who struck them, nor do they seek the Lord of Hosts.

Ezekiel 14:13

Son of man, when the land sins against Me by trespassing grievously, then I will stretch out My hand against it, and break the staff of the bread, and send famine against it, and cut off man and beast from it.

Hosea 14:1

Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God, for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.

Leviticus 26:19

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven as iron and your land as bronze.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its crops.

Zechariah 14:17

And it will happen that if any of the families of the earth do not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the Lord of Hosts, then there will not be rain for them.

Malachi 3:10

Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house, and test Me now in this, says the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it.

Luke 4:25

But I tell you truthfully, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land.

Romans 10:9

that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved,

Romans 15:9

and that the Gentiles might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written: “For this reason I will acknowledge You among the Gentiles, and I will sing praises to Your name.”

Deuteronomy 11:16

Take heed to yourselves that your heart be not deceived, and you turn away and serve other gods and worship them.

Deuteronomy 11:17

Then the Lord’s wrath will be inflamed against you, and He will shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain and the land will not yield its fruit, and you will quickly perish from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

Deuteronomy 28:12

The Lord will open up to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

Revelation 11:6

They have power to shut heaven, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every plague as often as they desire.