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2 Chron. 7:13 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Ifo I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;

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2 Chron. 6:26,28• ²⁶When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;
²⁸If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be: (2 Chron. 6:26,28)

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Psa. 107:34• ³⁴A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. (Psa. 107:34)

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If I shut up heaven.

2 Chron. 6:26‑28• ²⁶When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;
²⁷then hear thou in the heavens, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, when thou teachest them the good way wherein they should walk; and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
²⁸If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague or whatever sickness there be: (2 Chron. 6:26‑28)

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Deut. 11:17• ¹⁷and Jehovah's wrath kindle against you, and he shut up the heavens, that there be no rain, and that the ground yield not its produce, and ye perish quickly from off the good land which Jehovah is giving you. (Deut. 11:17)

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Job 11:10• ¹⁰If he pass by, and shut up, and call to judgment, who can hinder him? (Job 11:10)

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Job 12:14• ¹⁴Behold, he breaketh down, and it is not built again; he shutteth up a man, and there is no opening. (Job 12:14)

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Psa. 107:34• ³⁴A fruitful land into a plain of salt, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. (Psa. 107:34)

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Luke 4:25• ²⁵But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land, (Luke 4:25)

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Rev. 3:7• ⁷And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith the holy, the true; he that has the key of David, he who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open: (Rev. 3:7)

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Rev. 11:6• ⁶These have power to shut the heaven that no rain may fall during the days of their prophecy; and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood, and to smite the earth as often as they will with every plague. (Rev. 11:6)

I command.

Ex. 10:4‑6• ⁴For, if thou refuse to let my people go, behold, I will to-morrow bring locusts into thy borders;
⁵and they shall cover the face of the land, so that ye will not be able to see the land; and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which ye have remaining from the hail, and shall eat every tree which ye have growing in the field;
⁶and they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy bondmen, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers nor thy fathers' fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned and went out from Pharaoh. (Ex. 10:4‑6)

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Psa. 105:34• ³⁴He spoke, and the locust came, and the cankerworm, even without number; (Psa. 105:34)

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Joel 1:4‑7• ⁴that which the palmer-worm hath left hath the locust eaten; and that which the locust hath left hath the cankerworm eaten; and that which the cankerworm hath left hath the caterpillar eaten.
⁵Awake, ye drunkards, and weep; and howl, all ye drinkers of wine, because of the new wine: for it is cut off from your mouth.
⁶For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness.
⁷He hath made my vine a desolation, and barked my fig-tree; he hath made it clean bare, and cast it away: its branches are made white. (Joel 1:4‑7)

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Joel 2:25• ²⁵And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmer-worm, my great army which I sent among you. (Joel 2:25)

I send.

Num. 14:12• ¹²I will smite them with the pestilence, and destroy them, and will make of thee a nation greater and mightier than they. (Num. 14:12)

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Num. 16:46‑47• ⁴⁶And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put fire thereon from off the altar, and lay on incense, and carry it quickly to the assembly, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah: the plague is begun.
⁴⁷And Aaron took as Moses had said, and ran into the midst of the congregation; and behold, the plague had begun among the people; and he put on incense, and made atonement for the people. (Num. 16:46‑47)

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2 Sam. 24:13‑15• ¹³And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
¹⁴And David said to Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall, I pray thee, into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; but let me not fall into the hand of man.
¹⁵And Jehovah sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the set time; and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer-sheba seventy thousand men. (2 Sam. 24:13‑15)

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Ezek. 14:19‑21• ¹⁹Or if I send a pestilence into that land, and pour out my fury upon it in blood, to cut off from it man and beast,
²⁰and Noah, Daniel, and Job should be in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither son nor daughter: they should but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.
²¹For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast! (Ezek. 14:19‑21)

J. N. Darby Translation

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If I shut up the heavens that there be no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;