2 Chronicles 6:28–29

6:28 “The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust46 invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land,47 or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs. 6:29 When all your people Israel pray and ask for help,48 as they acknowledge their intense pain49 and spread out their hands toward this temple,

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46	tn Actually two Hebrew words appear here, both of which are usually (but not always) taken as referring to locusts. Perhaps different stages of growth or different varieties are in view, but this is uncertain. NEB has “locusts new-sloughed or fully grown”; NASB has “locust or grasshopper”; NIV has “locusts or grasshoppers”; NRSV has “locust, or caterpillar.”
47	tn Heb “in the land, his gates.”
48	tn Heb “every prayer, every request for help which will be to all the people, to all your people Israel.”
49	tn Heb “which they know, each his pain and his affliction.”