Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
- BSB ‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’
- 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 therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.
- Ps 105:15Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
- Gen 49:8–10Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
- Gen 48:19–20And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.
- 1 Kgs 19:16And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel: and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abelmeholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.
- 1 Jn 2:27But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.
- Gen 27:39–40And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;
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