KJV King James Version
[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
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1 Chronicles 16:22
[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’
WEB World English Bible
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
ASV American Standard Version
Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Come not against Mine anointed ones, And against My prophets do not evil.
Surrounding context — 1 Chronicles 16
19 When ye were but few, even a few, and strangers in it.
20 And [when] they went from nation to nation, and from [one] kingdom to another people;
21 He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,
22 [Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
24 Declare his glory among the heathen; his marvellous works among all nations.
25 For great [is] the LORD, and greatly to be praised: he also [is] to be feared above all gods.
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Genesis 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.Psalm 105:15[Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.Genesis 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.1 John 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.1 Kings 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.Genesis 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.Genesis 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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