“When the sky is 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,
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“When the sky is 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,
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When heaven is 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, when thou afflictest them:
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When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, when they do sin against Thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess Thy name, and turn from their sin, when Thou dost afflict them;
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Passages linked to 1 Kings 8:35 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Leviticus 26:19 I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
- Deuteronomy 11:17 and Yahweh’s anger be kindled against you, and he shut up the sky so that there is no rain, and the land doesn’t yield its fruit; and you perish quickly from off the good land which Yahweh gives you.
- 1 Kings 8:33 “When your people Israel are struck down before the enemy, because they have sinned against you; if they turn again to you, and confess your name, and pray and make supplication to you in this house;
- 2 Samuel 24:13 So Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, “Shall seven years of famine come to you in your land? Or will you flee three months before your foes while they pursue you? Or shall there be three days’ pestilence in your land? Now answer, and consider what answer I shall return to him who sent me.”
- Luke 4:25 But truly I tell you, there were many widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the sky was shut up three years and six months, when a great famine came over all the land.
- Revelation 11:6 These have the power to shut up the sky, that it may not rain during the days of their prophecy. They have power over the waters, to turn them into blood, and to strike the earth with every plague, as often as they desire.
- Deuteronomy 28:12 Yahweh will open to you his good treasure in the sky, to give the rain of your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You will lend to many nations, and you will not borrow.
- Deuteronomy 28:23-24 Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron. Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.
- 1 Kings 8:29-30 that your eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which you have said, ‘My name shall be there;’ to listen to the prayer which your servant prays toward this place. Listen to the supplication of your servant, and of your people Israel, when they pray toward this place. Yes, hear in heaven, your dwelling place; and when you hear, forgive.
- 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
- 2 Chronicles 6:24 “If your people Israel are struck down before the enemy because they have sinned against you, and they turn again and confess your name, and pray and make supplication before you in this house;
- 2 Chronicles 6:26 “When the sky is 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;
- Isaiah 1:15-16 When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood. Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
- Isaiah 9:13 Yet the people have not turned to him who struck them, neither have they sought Yahweh of Armies.
- Jeremiah 14:1-7 This is Yahweh’s word that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought. “Judah mourns, and its gates languish. They sit in black on the ground. The cry of Jerusalem goes up. Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads. Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads. Yes, the doe in the field also calves and forsakes her young, because there is no grass. The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights. They pant for air like jackals. Their eyes fail, because there is no vegetation. Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.
- Ezekiel 14:13 “Son of man, when a land sins against me by committing a trespass, and I stretch out my hand on it, and break the staff of its bread, and send famine on it, and cut off from it man and animal;
- Ezekiel 18:30-32 “Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, everyone according to his ways,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Return, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity will not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, in which you have transgressed; and make yourself a new heart and a new spirit: for why will you die, house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
- Hosea 14:1 Israel, return to Yahweh your God; for you have fallen because of your sin.
- Joel 1:13-20 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, for the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God’s house. Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, and cry to Yahweh. Alas for the day! For the day of Yahweh is at hand, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty. Isn’t the food cut off before our eyes; joy and gladness from the house of our God? The seeds rot under their clods. The granaries are laid desolate. The barns are broken down, for the grain has withered. How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate. Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame has burned all the trees of the field. Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
- Joel 2:15-17 Blow the trumpet in Zion! Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the people. Sanctify the assembly. Assemble the elders. Gather the children, and those who nurse from breasts. Let the bridegroom go out of his room, and the bride out of her room. Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
- Malachi 3:10 Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
- Romans 10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God 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, “Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain So that there be a drought to destroy the…
So that there be a drought to destroy the fruit of the land.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 8:35 When heaven is shut up, and there…
1Ki 8:35 When heaven is 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, when thou afflictest them:
Ver. 35. When heaven is shut up.] These bottles of the sky stopped.
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And confess thy name.] As 1Ki 8:33. Or, Confess to thy name, that is, praise thee, even in this adversity.
When thou aflictest them.] And so whippest them home. Or, When thou has testified against them - viz., by thy prophets.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Heaven; the lower heaven, in which the clouds are;…
Heaven; the lower heaven, in which the clouds are; as Deu 11:17; Psa 147:8.
Is shut up; the heaven is compared to a great store-house in God’s keeping, out of which nothing can be had so long as it is close shut up.
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If they turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them; do not reject their prayers, because they are forced from them by their afflictions, as thou mayest justly do.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain When heaven is shut up,.... As it may be…
When heaven is shut up,.... As it may be said to be when the air is quite serene, and not a cloud in it:
and there is no rain; in its season, neither the former nor the latter, as it was in the times of Elijah:
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because they have sinned against thee; want of rain was threatened in case of sin, and was always the effect of it, Lev 26:19,
if they pray towards this place; in any part of the country where they were; for it sometimes rained on one city, and not on another, Amo 4:7.
and confess thy name; own his power and his providence, and the justness of his dealings with them:
and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them; their affliction being made useful, to bring them to a sense of their sin, and to repentance for it, and reformation from it; or, "when thou hearest" or "answerest them" (g); so the Targum, receives their prayer; thus the goodness of God leads to repentance.
(g) "cum exaudieris eos", Vatablus.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Heaven - The lower heaven in which the clouds…
Heaven - The lower heaven in which the clouds are. Shut up - Heaven is compared to a great store-house in God's keeping, out of which nothing can be had, so long as it is close shut up.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 35. When the heaven is shut up, and…
Verse 35. When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain] The THIRD case. When, because of their sin, and their ceasing to walk in the good way in which they should have walked, God refuses to send the early and latter rain, so that the appointed weeks of harvest come in vain, as there is no crop: then, if they pray and confess their sin, hear thou in heaven, &c.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ki 8:35. When heaven is shut up — The…
1Ki 8:35. When heaven is shut up — The lower or aerial heaven, in which the clouds are. This is compared to a great storehouse in God’s keeping, out of which nothing can be obtained so long as it is close shut up. And as he is said to bring the wind, (Psa 135:7,) so the rain, out of this treasury.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 35. When heaven is shut up] The king next…
35. When heaven is shut up] The king next intreats against a plague of drought. This also had been proclaimed in the Pentateuch as one of God’s methods of discipline and punishment. So Deu_11:17 the people are warned to beware of sin lest the Lord shut up the heaven that there be no rain; and in Deuteronomy (Deu_28:23) and Leviticus (Lev_26:19) the striking phrase is used ‘I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass.’
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (35, 36) When heaven is shut up.—Next, Solomon dwells…
(35, 36) When heaven is shut up.—Next, Solomon dwells on the plague of famine, from rain withheld, by which, in the striking language of the Law (Lev_26:19; Deu_28:23-24), “the heaven should be as brass, and the earth as iron,” and all vegetation perish from the parched land of Palestine, as now it seems actually to have failed in many places once fertile. In such plague he acknowledges the chastisement of God, sent to “teach Israel the right way,” and then to be withdrawn in mercy. The whole history of the famine in the days of Elijah is in all parts a striking commentary on this clause of the prayer.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain When heaven is shut up, and there is no…
When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place toward, because the inhabitants of the land everywhere would direct their prayers toward the holy oracle in Jerusalem, (Psa_28:2) and confess praise thy name, and turn from their sin, when or because, yKi thou afflictest them. LXX otan tapeinwshv aujtouv Humbling should be the result of affliction.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 the skies are shut up and there is no…
the skies are shut up and there is no rain
The sky is spoken of as if it were a building in which God stores the rain. AT: "you do not allow rain to fall" (See: Metaphor)
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confess your name
Possible meanings are 1) "confess that they have sinned against you" or 2) "praise you" or 3) "say that they will obey you from now on." See how you translated this in 1 Kings 8:33.
in which they should walk
The way a person lives is spoken of as if that person were walking on a path. AT: "that they should live" (See: Metaphor)
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servant
good
walk
send
inherit
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 8:35-36 Solomon prayed about drought brought on by the…
8:35-36 Solomon prayed about drought brought on by the people’s sin (Lev 26:19; Deut 28:23-24). Solomon prayed that if the people confessed and truly repented, God would forgive them and restore fertility to the land so that the people would learn to live righteously before God.
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