1 Kings 8:35

When heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:

Ver. 35. When heaven is shut up.] These bottles of the sky stopped.

And confess thy name.] As 1 Kings 8:33. Or, Confess to thy name, that is, praise thee, even in this adversity.

When thou aflictest them.] And so whippest them home. Or, When thou has testified against them - viz., by thy prophets.