1 Chronicles 16:22
New International Version
“Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

New Living Translation
“Do not touch my chosen people, and do not hurt my prophets.”

English Standard Version
saying, “Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!”

Berean Standard Bible
‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’

King James Bible
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

New King James Version
Saying, “Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.”

New American Standard Bible
“Do not touch My anointed ones, And do not harm My prophets.”

NASB 1995
“Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.”

NASB 1977
“Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.”

Legacy Standard Bible
“Do not touch My anointed ones, And against My prophets do no evil.”

Amplified Bible
“Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.”

Christian Standard Bible
“Do not touch my anointed ones or harm my prophets.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Do not touch My anointed ones or harm My prophets.”

American Standard Version
Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And he said to them: ‘You shall not touch my Anointed Ones, and to my Prophets you shall not do evil.’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and deal not wrongfully with my prophets.

Contemporary English Version
and telling them, "Don't touch my chosen leaders or harm my prophets!"

Douay-Rheims Bible
Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

English Revised Version
Saying, Touch not mine anointed ones, and do my prophets no harm.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
'Do not touch my anointed ones or harm my prophets.'

Good News Translation
"Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."

International Standard Version
"Don't touch my chosen ones, and don't hurt my prophets!"

JPS Tanakh 1917
Touch not Mine anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm.'

Literal Standard Version
Do not come against My anointed ones, | And do no evil against My prophets.

Majority Standard Bible
‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’

New American Bible
“Do not touch my anointed, to my prophets do no harm.”

NET Bible
saying, "Don't touch my anointed ones! Don't harm my prophets!"

New Revised Standard Version
saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm.”

New Heart English Bible
"Do not touch my anointed ones. Do my prophets no harm."

Webster's Bible Translation
Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

World English Bible
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”

Young's Literal Translation
Come not against Mine anointed ones, And against My prophets do not evil.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
David's Psalm of Thanksgiving
21He let no man oppress them; He rebuked kings on their behalf: 22‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’ 23Sing to the LORD, all the earth. Proclaim His salvation day after day.…

Cross References
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 all who belong to you."

1 Chronicles 16:23
Sing to the LORD, all the earth. Proclaim His salvation day after day.


Treasury of Scripture

Saying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

Touch

1 Kings 19:16
And 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.

Psalm 105:15
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

1 John 2:27
But 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.

prophets

Genesis 20:7
Now 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.

Genesis 27:39,40
And 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; …

Genesis 48:19,20
And 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…

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(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 not
אַֽל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

touch
תִּגְּעוּ֙ (tig·gə·‘ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 5060: To touch, lay the hand upon, to reach, violently, to strike

My anointed ones;
בִּמְשִׁיחָ֔י (bim·šî·ḥāy)
Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4899: Anointed, a consecrated person, the Messiah

do no harm
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

to My prophets.’
וּבִנְבִיאַ֖י (ū·ḇin·ḇî·’ay)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 5030: A spokesman, speaker, prophet


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