1st Chronicles Chapter 16 verse 22 Holy Bible
`Saying', Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
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Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.
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[Saying,] Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
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Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
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Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
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[Saying], Don't touch my anointed ones, Do my prophets no harm.
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Come not against Mine anointed ones, And against My prophets do not evil.
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Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(22) Saying.--Omitted in the Hebrew, as in Psalm 2:6, and perhaps at the end of 1Chronicles 16:7, supra.Mine anointed (ones).--Plural of Messiah. Abraham and Sarah were to be progenitors of kings (Genesis 17:16). (Comp. Genesis 23:6.)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 1Chronicles 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). . . . Parallel Commentaries ...Hebrew‘Do notאַֽל־ (’al-)AdverbStrong's 408: Nottouchתִּגְּעוּ֙ (tig·gə·‘ū)Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine pluralStrong's 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strikeMy anointed ones;בִּמְשִׁיחָ֔י (bim·šî·ḥāy)Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine plural construct | first person common singularStrong's 4899: Anointed, a consecrated person, the Messiahdo no harmאַל־ (’al-)AdverbStrong's 408: Notto My prophets.’וּבִנְבִיאַ֖י (ū·ḇin·ḇî·’ay)Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singularStrong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophetJump to PreviousAnointed Evil Hand Harm Holy Marked Oil Ones Prophets Touch Wrong
