1 Chronicles 16 · Verse 22

1 Chronicles 16:22

Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm.
1 Chronicles 16:22, King James Version

1 Chronicles 16:22 in other translations

BSB‘Do not touch My anointed ones! Do no harm to My prophets!’
WEB“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
ASVSaying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
YLTCome not against Mine anointed ones, And against My prophets do not evil.
DARBYSaying, Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.
BBESaying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.
WebsterSaying, Touch not my anointed, and do my prophets no harm.

What does 1 Chronicles 16:22 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 Touch 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).

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on 1 Chronicles 16:7-36

Let God be glorified in our praises. Let others be edified and taught, that strangers to him may be led to adore him. Let us ourselves triumph and trust in God. Those that give glory to God's name are allowed to glory in it. Let the everlasting covenant be the great matter of our joy his people of old, be remembered by us with thankfulness to him. Show forth from day to day his salvation, his promised salvation by…

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1 Chronicles 16:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

אַֽל\־'al-may notH408
תִּגְּעוּ֙ti.ge.'Uyou touchH5060
בִּמְשִׁיחָ֔יbim.shi.Chai<in> anointed [ones] myH4899
וּבִנְבִיאַ֖יu.vin.vi.'Aiand to prophets myH5030
אַל\־'al-may notH408
תָּרֵֽעוּ\׃\ \פta.Re.'uyou do harmH7489

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for 1 Chronicles 16:22

  • 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.

  • Psalms 105:15

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

  • Genesis 49:8-10

    Judah, 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. Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

  • 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. And he blessed them that day, saying, In thee shall Israel bless, saying, God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh: and he set Ephraim before Manasseh.

  • 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 Abel–meholah shalt thou anoint to be prophet in thy room.

  • 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.

  • 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; And by thy sword shalt thou live, and shalt serve thy brother; and it shall come to pass when thou shalt have the dominion, that thou shalt break his yoke from off thy neck.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Touch.
1Ki 19:16; Ps 105:15; 1Jo 2:27
prophets.
Ge 20:7; 27:39,40; 48:19,20; 49:8-10

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Context

  • 1 Chronicles 16:21

    He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

  • 1 Chronicles 16:22

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

  • 1 Chronicles 16:23

    Sing unto the Lord, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.

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1 Chronicles 16:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		No toquéis, dijo, á mis ungidos, ni hagáis mal á mis profetas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Disant: Ne touchez pas à mes oints, et ne faites pas de mal à mes prophètes.
German
Elberfelder 1871		"Tastet meine Gesalbten nicht an, und meinen Propheten tut nichts Übles!"
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Nolite tangere christos meos, et in prophetis meis nolite malignari.