“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
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“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
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Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
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'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'
Cross-references (7)
Passages linked to 1 Chronicles 16:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Genesis 20:7 Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will die, you, and all who are yours.”
- Psalms 105:15 “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
- Genesis 49:8-10 “Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you. Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up? The scepter will not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him will the obedience of the peoples be.
- Genesis 48:19-20 His father refused, and said, “I know, my son, I know. He also will become a people, and he also will be great. However, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a multitude of nations.” He blessed them that day, saying, “Israel will bless in you, saying, ‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh’ ” He set Ephraim before Manasseh.
- 1 Kings 19:16 Anoint Jehu the son of Nimshi to be king over Israel; and anoint Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel Meholah to be prophet in your place.
- 1 John 2:27 As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning all things, and is true, and is no lie, and even as it taught you, you will remain in him.
- Genesis 27:39-40 Isaac his father answered him, “Behold, your dwelling will be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of the sky from above. You will live by your sword, and you will serve your brother. It will happen, when you will break loose, that you will shake his yoke from off your neck.”
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain To whom God declared his word, and they declared…
To whom God declared his word, and they declared it to their posterity.
Mine elect people and them whom I have sanctified.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. Touch not mine anointed] By this title…
Verse 22. Touch not mine anointed] By this title the patriarchs are generally understood: they had a regal and sacerdotal power in the order of God. In the behalf of the patriarchs God had often especially interfered: in behalf of Abraham, Ge 12:17; Ge 20:3; and of Jacob, Ge 31:24; Ge 34:26; Ge 35:5. But the title may be applied to all the Jewish people, who were the anointed, as they were the elect and peculiar people of God. See on Heb 11:26.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Prophets. The ancient patriarchs ruled their families as kings,…
Prophets. The ancient patriarchs ruled their families as kings, and directed them by word and example, like the most holy prophets. (Calmet) --- Both are frequently styled anointed. (Haydock)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 22. mine anointed] R.V. mine anointed ones; LXX. τῶν…
22. mine anointed] R.V. mine anointed ones; LXX. τῶν χριστῶν μου.
my prophets] Gen_20:7.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (22) Saying.—Omitted in the Hebrew, as in Psa_2:6, and…
(22) Saying.—Omitted in the Hebrew, as in Psa_2:6, and perhaps at the end of 1Ch_16:7, supra.
Mine anointed (ones).—Plural of Messiah. Abraham and Sarah were to be progenitors of kings (Gen_17:16). (Comp. Gen_23:6.)
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My prophets.—Literally, do no harm against my prophets—a construction unparalleled elsewhere. Psalms 105 has the usual expression, “to my prophets.” (See Genesis 12, 20, 26 for the passages of patriarchal history to which allusion is here made.)
We have now reached the first “seam” in this composite ode. Psalms 105 naturally continues its historic proof of Jehovah’s faithfulness, by reference to the sojourn in Egypt, the Exodus, the wanderings, and the occupation of Canaan. Here, however, this train of thought is abruptly broken off, and a fresh start made in 1Ch_16:23 with Psalms 96. The author, or authors, who compiled this hymn of praise “strung together familiar psalms as a sort of mosaic, to give approximate expression to the festive strains and feelings of the day (Delitzsch).
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