1 Chronicles 16:22
in 1 Chronicles 16‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’
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ASV
Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
KJV
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 16
Commentary
4 notes on this verseTouch 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, Gen 12:17; Gen 20:3; and of Jacob, Gen 31:24; Gen 34:26; Gen 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 (note).
This site's exposition
but few, even a few, and strangers
on 1 Chronicles 16:19-22
Verses 19 through 22 recall Israel wandering few in number from nation to nation, protected because the LORD reproved kings for their sakes: touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Clarke reads mine anointed as the patriarchs themselves, holding a kind of royal and priestly standing under God's own protection long before any throne existed in Israel. The clause parallels Ps 105:12-15 and closes the psalm's first half, the history lesson giving way to direct praise at verse 23.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers2 voices
How splendidly joined to each other are the sections proceeding from the same source to achieve the salvation of the human race. Who would not be amazed that what is said earlier in different psalms is clearly assembled so harmoniously here? Similarly David himself in …
There was no need that there should everywhere exist many bodies and many spirits like Jesus, in order that the entire humankind might be enlightened by the Word of God. For the one Word was enough, having arisen as the "Sun of righteousness," to send forth from Judea his coming rays into the souls of all who were willing to receive him.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| אַֽל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תִּגְּעוּ֙ | tigeu | you touch | H5060 → | |
| בִּמְשִׁיחָ֔י | bimshichai | <in> anointed [ones] my | H4899 → | |
| וּבִנְבִיאַ֖י | uvinviai | and to prophets my | H5030 → | 314 times |
| אַל־ | ʾal- | may not | H408 → | 724 times |
| תָּרֵֽעוּ׃ פ | tareu | you do harm | H7489 → | 107 times |
אַֽל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
תִּגְּעוּ֙you touch
tigeuH5060 →
בִּמְשִׁיחָ֔י<in> anointed [ones] my
bimshichaiH4899 →
וּבִנְבִיאַ֖יand to prophets my
uvinviaiH5030 →314 times
אַל־may not
ʾal-H408 →724 times
תָּרֵֽעוּ׃ פyou do harm
tareuH7489 →107 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
1 John 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…
it leads to
- John 14:26
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
- 1 John 2:20–21
You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
- 1 Corinthians 2:13
And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
- John 16:13
However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to…
- Jeremiah 31:33–34
“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And…
- John 14:26
Through
Psalms 105:15“Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!”
it leads to
- Zechariah 2:8
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
- Genesis 26:11
So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
- Genesis 20:7
Now 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…
- Zechariah 2:8
About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Cassiodorus, EXPLANATION OF THE PSALMS, CONCLUSION; Keil, The Books of the Chronicles and Origen of Alexandria, AGAINST CELSUS 6.79.