Charles Ellicott Commentary 2 Chronicles 7:13

"If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people;" — 2 Chronicles 7:13 (ASV)

If I shut up heaven that there be no rain. —Deuteronomy 11:17; 2 Chronicles 6:26.

If. — Hçn, as in Jeremiah 3:1; Isaiah 54:15.

The locusts. — Hâgâb, a winged and edible species (Leviticus 11:22). In 2 Chronicles 6:28, two other kinds, the ’arbeh and hâsîl, were mentioned.

If I send pestilence. — 2 Chronicles 6:28; 1 Chronicles 21:0; 1 Chronicles 21:0