1 Kings 8:35-37

English Standard Version

^35 (A)“When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them, ³⁶ then hear in heaven and forgive the sin of your servants, your people Israel, when ^(B)you teach them ^(C)the good way in which they should walk, and grant rain upon your land, which you have given to your people as an inheritance.

^37 (D)“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates,^[a] whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,