1 Kings 8:35-37

International Standard Version

³⁵ “When heaven remains closed, and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, and they pray in the direction of this place, confessing your name and turning from their sin when you afflict them,^{[a] 36} then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants and of your people Israel. Indeed, teach them the best way to live and send rain on your land that you have given to your people as an inheritance.

³⁷ “If a famine comes to the land, or if plant diseases, mildew, locust, or grasshoppers^[b] appear, or if their enemies attack them in their settlements of the land, no matter what the epidemic or illness is,