Chronicles II 6:26

26 When heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall have sinned against thee, and they shall pray towards this place, and praise thy name, and shall turn from their sins, because thou shalt afflict them;

Chronicles II 6:26 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 5:26

(See Gill on 2 Chronicles 5:1).

Chronicles II 6:26 In-Context

24 And if thy people Israel should be put to the worse before the enemy, if they should sin against thee, and turn and confess to thy name, and pray and make supplication before thee in this house;

25 then shalt thou hearken out of heaven and shalt be merciful to the sins of thy people Israel, and thou shalt restore them to the land which thou gavest to them and to their fathers.

26 When heaven is restrained, and there is no rain, because they shall have sinned against thee, and they shall pray towards this place, and praise thy name, and shall turn from their sins, because thou shalt afflict them;

27 then shalt thou hearken from heaven, and thou shalt be merciful to the sins of thy servants, and of thy people Israel; for thou shalt shew them the good way in which they shall walk; and thou shalt send rain upon thy land, which thou gavest to thy people for an inheritance.

28 If there should be famine upon the land, if there should be death, a pestilent wind an blight; if there should be locust and caterpiller, and if the enemy should harass them before their cities: in whatever plague and whatever distress ;