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 warns kings not to harm His chosen people, calling them His anointed and prophets. It matters because it shows God personally guards those He has set apart.
Overview
In the patriarchal period God restrained pagan rulers from harming Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Genesis 12; 20; 26). The terms 'anointed' and 'prophets' describe the covenant family as set apart and entrusted with God's word. The verse displays God's sovereign protection of His people, ultimately fulfilled in Christ, the true Anointed One through whom all the promises hold.
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Cross-references · 8
- Zech 2:8For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
- Gen 26:11And Abimelech charged all his people, saying, He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death.
- 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.
- 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 49:8–33Judah, 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.
- 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;
- 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.
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