Deuteronomy 11:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Shut up the heaven — Which is compared sometimes to a great store — house wherein God lays up his treasures of rain, Job 38:22, the doors whereof God is said to open when he gives rain, and to shut when he witholds it.

Deuteronomy 11:17

17 And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.