2Chr 6:26 Cross References
2 Chronicles 6:26
26: "If the skies are shut up and there is no rain because your people have sinned against you, and then they pray toward this Temple and confess your name and turn from their sins because you have punished them,
Leviticus 26:19
- I will break down your arrogant spirit by making the skies above as unyielding as iron and the earth beneath as hard as bronze.
Deuteronomy 11:17
- If you do, the LORD's anger will burn against you. He will shut up the sky and hold back the rain, and your harvests will fail. Then you will quickly die in that good land the LORD is now giving you.
2 Chronicles 33:12
- But while in deep distress, Manasseh sought the LORD his God and cried out humbly to the God of his ancestors.
- And when he prayed, the LORD listened to him and was moved by his request for help. So the LORD let Manasseh return to Jerusalem and to his kingdom. Manasseh had finally realized that the LORD alone is God!
Luke 4:25
- "Certainly there were many widows in Israel who needed help in Elijah's time, when there was no rain for three and a half years and hunger stalked the land.
Joel 1:13
- Dress yourselves in sackcloth, you priests! Wail, you who serve before the altar! Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God! There is no grain or wine to offer at the Temple of your God.
- Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting. Bring the leaders and all the people into the Temple of the LORD your God, and cry out to him there.
- The day of the LORD is on the way, the day when destruction comes from the Almighty. How terrible that day will be!
- We watch as our food disappears before our very eyes. There are no joyful celebrations in the house of our God.
- The seeds die in the parched ground, and the grain crops fail. The barns and granaries stand empty and abandoned.
Amos 4:4
- "Go ahead and offer your sacrifices to the idols at Bethel and Gilgal. Keep on disobeying--your sins are mounting up! Offer sacrifices each morning and bring your tithes every three days!
- Present your bread made with yeast as an offering of thanksgiving. Then give your extra voluntary offerings so you can brag about it everywhere! This is the kind of thing you Israelites love to do," says the Sovereign LORD.
- "I brought hunger to every city and famine to every town. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.
- "I kept the rain from falling when you needed it the most, ruining all your crops. I sent rain on one town but withheld it from another. Rain fell on one field, while another field withered away.
- People staggered from one town to another for a drink of water, but there was never enough. But still you wouldn't return to me," says the LORD.
Proverbs 28:13
- People who cover over their sins will not prosper. But if they confess and forsake them, they will receive mercy.
Hosea 5:15
- Then I will return to my place until they admit their guilt and look to me for help. For as soon as trouble comes, they will search for me."
- "Come, let us return to the LORD! He has torn us in pieces; now he will heal us. He has injured us; now he will bandage our wounds.
1 Kings 17:1
- Now Elijah, who was from Tishbe in Gilead, told King Ahab, "As surely as the LORD, the God of Israel, lives--the God whom I worship and serve--there will be no dew or rain during the next few years unless I give the word!"
- Then the LORD said to Elijah,
- "Go to the east and hide by Kerith Brook at a place east of where it enters the Jordan River.
- Drink from the brook and eat what the ravens bring you, for I have commanded them to bring you food."
- So Elijah did as the LORD had told him and camped beside Kerith Brook.
Ezekiel 14:13
- "Son of man, suppose the people of a country were to sin against me, and I lifted my fist to crush them, cutting off their food supply and sending a famine to destroy both people and animals alike.
Isaiah 50:1
- The LORD asks, "Did I sell you as slaves to my creditors? Is that why you are not here? Is your mother gone because I divorced her and sent her away? No, you went away as captives because of your sins. And your mother, too, was taken because of your sins.
- Was I too weak to save you? Is that why the house is silent and empty when I come home? Is it because I have no power to rescue? No, that is not the reason! For I can speak to the sea and make it dry! I can turn rivers into deserts covered with dying fish.
Jeremiah 14:1
- This message came to Jeremiah from the LORD, explaining why he was holding back the rain:
- "Judah wilts; her businesses have ground to a halt. All the people sit on the ground in mourning, and a great cry rises from Jerusalem.
- The nobles send servants to get water, but all the wells are dry. The servants return with empty pitchers, confused and desperate, covering their heads in grief.
- The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are afraid; they, too, cover their heads.
- The deer abandons her newborn fawn because there is no grass.
Revelation 11:6
- They have power to shut the skies so that no rain will fall for as long as they prophesy. And they have the power to turn the rivers and oceans into blood, and to send every kind of plague upon the earth as often as they wish.
Joel 2:15
- Blow the trumpet in Jerusalem! Announce a time of fasting; call the people together for a solemn meeting.
- Bring everyone--the elders, the children, and even the babies. Call the bridegroom from his quarters and the bride from her private room.
- The priests, who minister in the LORD's presence, will stand between the people and the altar, weeping. Let them pray, "Spare your people, LORD! They belong to you, so don't let them become an object of mockery. Don't let their name become a proverb of unbelieving foreigners who say, `Where is the God of Israel? He must be helpless!'"
Deuteronomy 28:23
- The skies above will be as unyielding as bronze, and the earth beneath will be as hard as iron.
Isaiah 5:6
- I will make it a wild place. I will not prune the vines or hoe the ground. I will let it be overgrown with briers and thorns. I will command the clouds to drop no more rain on it."
Ezekiel 18:27
- And if wicked people turn away from their wickedness, obey the law, and do what is just and right, they will save their lives.
- They will live, because after thinking it over, they decided to turn from their sins. Such people will not die.
- And yet the people of Israel keep saying, `The Lord is unjust!' O people of Israel, it is you who are unjust, not I.
- "Therefore, I will judge each of you, O people of Israel, according to your actions, says the Sovereign LORD. Turn from your sins! Don't let them destroy you!
- Put all your rebellion behind you, and get for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. For why should you die, O people of Israel?