2 Chronicles 6:26

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray toward this place, and acknowledge thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them,

Cross References

2 Chronicles 6:25

then hear thou from heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people Israel, and bring them again to the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

2 Chronicles 7:13

When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people,

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.

Isaiah 5:6

I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

Ezekiel 14:13

“Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it, and break its staff of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,

Hosea 5:15

I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress they seek me, saying,

Leviticus 26:19

and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like brass;

Luke 4:25

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

Deuteronomy 11:17

and the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and he shut up the heavens, so that there be no rain, and the land yield no fruit, and you perish quickly off the good land which the Lord gives you.

Deuteronomy 28:23

And the heavens over your head shall be brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.

Revelation 11:6

They have power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.