1 Chronicles 16:22
Good News Translation
"Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

Touch

1 Kings 19:16 And thou shalt anoint Jehu, the son of Namsi, to be king over Israel: and Eliseus, the son of Saphat, of Abelmeula, thou shalt anoint to be prophet in thy room.

Psalm 105:15 Touch ye not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.

1 John 2:27 And as for you, let the unction, which you have received from him abide in you. And you have no need that any man teach you: but as his unction teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie. And as it hath taught you, 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: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

Genesis 27:39,40 Isaac being moved, said to him: In the fat of the earth, and in the dew of heaven from above, . . .

Genesis 48:19,20 But he refusing, said: I know, my son, I know: and this also shall become a people, and shall be multiplied; but his younger brother shall be greater than he; and his seed shall grow into nations. . . .

Genesis 49:8-10 Juda, thee shall thy brethren praise: thy hand shall be on the necks of thy enemies; the sons of thy father shall bow down to thee. . . .

Context
David's Psalm of Thanksgiving
21He suffered no man to do them wrong: and reproved kings for their sake. 22Touch not my anointed: and do no evil to my prophets.23Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth: shew forth from day to day his salvation.…
Cross References
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: but if thou wilt not restore her, know that thou shalt surely die, thou and all that are thine.

1 Chronicles 16:23
Sing ye to the Lord, all the earth: shew forth from day to day his salvation.

1 Chronicles 16:21
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