2 Chronicles 7:13

New International Reader's Version

“Suppose I close up the sky and there isn’t any rain. Suppose I command locusts to eat up the crops. And I send a plague among my people.

Cross References

Job 11:10

“Suppose God comes along and puts you in prison. Suppose he takes you to court. Then who can oppose him?

Job 12:14

What he tears down can’t be rebuilt. The people he puts in prison can’t be set free.

Psalm 105:34

He spoke, and the locusts came. There were so many of them they couldn’t be counted.

Psalm 107:34

He turned land that produced crops into a salty land where nothing could grow. He did it because the people who lived there were evil.

Joel 2:25

The Lord says, “I sent a great army of locusts to attack you. They included common locusts, giant locusts, young locusts and other locusts. I will make up for the years they ate your crops.

Amos 4:7

“I also held back rain from you. The time to harvest crops was still three months away. I sent rain on one town. But I held it back from another. One field had rain. But another had no rain and dried up.

Numbers 14:12

So I will strike them down with a plague. I will destroy them. But I will make you into a greater and stronger nation than they are.”

Luke 4:25

I tell you for sure that there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah. And there had been no rain for three and a half years. There wasn’t enough food to eat anywhere in the land.

Deuteronomy 11:17

If you do, the Lord will be very angry with you. He’ll close up the sky. It won’t rain. The ground won’t produce its crops. Soon you will die. You won’t live to enjoy the good land the Lord is giving you.

Revelation 11:6

These witnesses have power to close up the sky. Then it will not rain while they are prophesying. They also have power to turn the waters into blood. And they can strike the earth with every kind of plague. They can do this as often as they want to.

Revelation 3:7

“Here is what I command you to write to the church in Philadelphia. Here are the words of Jesus, who is holy and true. He holds the key of David. No one can shut what he opens. And no one can open what he shuts. He says,