2 Chronicles 6:28

King James Version:

(The Lord speaking is red text)

If there be dearth in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting, or mildew, locusts, or caterpillers; if their enemies besiege them in the cities of their land; whatsoever sore or whatsoever sickness [there be]:

Complete Jewish Bible:

"If there is famine in the land, or blight, windstorm, mildew, locusts or shearer-worms; or if their enemies besiege them in any of their cities - no matter what kind of plague or sickness it is;

Berean Standard Bible:

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemies besiege them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

American Standard Version:

If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, if there be blasting or mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague or whatsoever sickness there be;

KJV with Strong’s Numbers:

If there be dearth{H7458} in the land{H776}, if there be pestilence{H1698}, if there be blasting{H7711}, or mildew{H3420}, locusts{H697}, or caterpillers{H2625}; if their enemies{H341} besiege{H6887} them in the cities{H8179} of their land{H776}; whatsoever sore{H5061} or whatsoever sickness{H4245} there be:

Cross-References (KJV):

James 5:13

  • Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

Joel 2:25

  • And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.

Revelation 9:3

  • And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

Revelation 9:11

  • And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon.

Ruth 1:1

  • ¶ Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

Deuteronomy 28:21

  • The LORD shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

Deuteronomy 28:61

  • Also every sickness, and every plague, which [is] not written in the book of this law, them will the LORD bring upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

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Commentary for 2 Chronicles 6:28

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Strong's Numbers and Definitions:

Note: H = Hebrew (OT), G = Greek (NT)

  1. Strong's Number: H7458
    There are 88 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: רָעָב
    Transliteration: râʻâb
    Pronunciation: raw-awb'
    Description: from רָעֵב; hunger (more or less extensive); dearth, famine, [phrase] famished, hunger.
  2. Strong's Number: H776
    There are 2739 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: אֶרֶץ
    Transliteration: ʼerets
    Pronunciation: eh'-rets
    Description: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land); [idiom] common, country, earth, field, ground, land, [idiom] natins, way, [phrase] wilderness, world.
  3. Strong's Number: H1698
    There are 48 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: דֶּבֶר
    Transliteration: deber
    Pronunciation: deh'-ber
    Description: from דָבַר (in the sense of destroying); a pestilence; murrain, pestilence, plague.
  4. Strong's Number: H7711
    There are 6 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: שְׁדֵפָה
    Transliteration: shᵉdêphâh
    Pronunciation: shed-ay-faw'
    Description: or שִׁדָּפוֹן; from שָׁדַף; blight; blasted(-ing).
  5. Strong's Number: H3420
    There are 6 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: יֵרָקוֹן
    Transliteration: yêrâqôwn
    Pronunciation: yay-raw-kone'
    Description: from יֶרֶק; paleness, whether of persons (from fright), or of plants (from drought); greenish, yellow.
  6. Strong's Number: H697
    There are 82 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: אַרְבֶּה
    Transliteration: ʼarbeh
    Pronunciation: ar-beh'
    Description: from רָבָה; a locust (from its rapid increase); grasshopper, locust.
  7. Strong's Number: H2625
    There are 6 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: חָסִיל
    Transliteration: châçîyl
    Pronunciation: khaw-seel'
    Description: from חָסַל; the ravager, i.e. a locust; caterpillar.
  8. Strong's Number: H341
    There are 481 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: אֹיֵב
    Transliteration: ʼôyêb
    Pronunciation: o-yabe'
    Description: or (fully) אוֹיֵב; active participle of אָיַב; hating; an adversary; enemy, foe.
  9. Strong's Number: H6887
    There are 56 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: צָרַר
    Transliteration: tsârar
    Pronunciation: tsaw-rar'
    Description: a primitive root; to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive; adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
  10. Strong's Number: H8179
    There are 302 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: שַׁעַר
    Transliteration: shaʻar
    Pronunciation: shah'-ar
    Description: from שָׁעַר in its original sense; an opening, i.e. door or gate; city, door, gate, port ([idiom] -er).
  11. Strong's Number: H5061
    There are 62 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: נֶגַע
    Transliteration: negaʻ
    Pronunciation: neh'-gah
    Description: from נָגַע; a blow (figuratively, infliction); also (by implication) a spot (concretely, a leprous person or dress); plague, sore, stricken, stripe, stroke, wound.
  12. Strong's Number: H4245
    There are 6 instances of this translation in the Bible
    Lemma: מַחֲלֶה
    Transliteration: machăleh
    Pronunciation: makh-al-eh'
    Description: or (feminine) מַחֲלָה; from חָלָה; sickness; disease, infirmity, sickness.