1 Kings 8:35

Modern King James Version

When the heavens are restrained, 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 Jehovah, I have sinned greatly in what I have done. And now, I beseech You, O Jehovah, take away the iniquity of Your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

2 Samuel 24:13

And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come upon you and on your land? Or will you flee three months before your enemies while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days' plague in your land? And advise, and see what answer I shall return to Him who sent me.

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except according to my word.

1 Kings 8:33

When Your people Israel are crushed before the enemy because they have sinned against You, and shall turn again to You and confess Your name, and pray, and cry to You in this house,

1 Kings 8:34

then hear in Heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel, and bring them again into 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 if they shall return and confess Your name, and shall pray and cry before You in this house,

2 Chronicles 6:26

When the heavens shall be 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,

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 briers and thorns shall come up. And I will command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.

Isaiah 9:13

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

Ezekiel 14:13

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

Hosea 14:1

O Israel, return to Jehovah 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 like iron and your earth like bronze.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heavens above you have held back the dew, and the earth is held back from her produce.

Zechariah 14:17

And it shall be, whoever will not come up from all the families of the earth to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts, even on them shall be no rain.

Malachi 3:10

Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. And test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, to see if I will not open the windows of Heaven for you, and pour out a blessing for you, until there is not enough room.

Luke 4:25

But I tell you truly, 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

Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.

Romans 15:9

and that the nations might glorify God for His mercy, as it is written, "For this cause I will confess to You in the nations, and I will praise Your name."

Deuteronomy 11:16

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

Deuteronomy 11:17

and Jehovah's wrath be kindled against you, and He shut up the heavens so that there will be no rain, and so that the land will not yield her fruit, and you perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah gives you.

Deuteronomy 28:12

Jehovah 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 loan to many nations, and you shall not borrow.

Revelation 11:6

These have authority to shut up the heaven, that it may not rain in the days of their prophecy. And they have authority over waters to turn them to blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.