‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’
Parallel translations
- WEB “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
- KJV Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
- NKJV Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.”
- NASB “Do not touch My anointed ones, And do not harm My prophets.”
- NLT “Do not touch my chosen people, and do not hurt my prophets.”
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Quick answer
God warned, Do not touch My anointed ones, do My prophets no harm. He placed His people under His personal protection.
Overview
God speaks of the patriarchs as His anointed and prophets, marking them as set apart and divinely defended. To harm them was to oppose God Himself. The language of God's anointed reaches its ultimate fulfillment in Christ, the Messiah, the truly Anointed One whom God vindicates.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Gen 20:7Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet; he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not restore her, be aware that you will surely die—you and all who belong to you.”
- Ps 105:15“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
- Gen 49:8–10Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall bow down to you.
- Gen 48:19–20But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”
- 1 Kgs 19:16You are also to anoint Jehu son of Nimshi as king over Israel and Elisha son of Shaphat from Abel-meholah to succeed you as prophet.
- 1 Jn 2:27And as for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But just as His true and genuine anointing teaches you about all things, so remain in Him as you have been taught.
- Gen 27:39–40His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
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