1 Chronicles 16:22

THE MESSAGE

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Do not touch my anointed onesor harm my prophets.”

Hebrew Names Version
[Saying], Don't touch my anointed ones, Do my prophets no harm.

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

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

New Century Version
He said, "Don't touch my chosen people, and don't harm my prophets."

New English Translation
saying, "Don't touch my anointed ones! Don't harm my prophets!"

Amplified Bible
"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."

World English Bible
[Saying], Don't touch my anointed ones, Do my prophets no harm.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Touch not mine anoynted, and doe my Prophets no harme.

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

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
"Don't touch my anointed ones or do my prophets harm!"

Darby Translation
[Saying,] Touch not mine anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.

Easy-to-Read Version
He said, "Don't hurt my chosen people. Don't hurt my prophets."

George Lamsa Translation
Saying, Touch not my anointed ones and do my prophets no harm.

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

Lexham English Bible
saying, "You must not touch my anointed nor do harm to my prophets!"

Literal Translation
Touch not My anointed ones, and do My prophets no evil.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Touch not myne anoynted, & do my prophetes no harme.

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

Bible in Basic English
Saying, Put not your hand on those who have been marked with my holy oil, and do my prophets no wrong.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Touche not myne annoynted: and triumph not ouer my prophetes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'

King James Version (1611)
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and doe my Prophets no harme.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
saying, Touch not my anointed ones, and deal not wrongfully with my prophets.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Nyle ye touche my cristis; and nyle ye do wickidli ayens my prophetis.

Update Bible Version
[Saying], Don't touch my anointed ones, And do my prophets no harm.

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

New King James Version
Saying, "Do not touch My anointed ones,And do My prophets no harm." 1 Chronicles 16:8-22 with Psalms 105:1-15 ">[fn]

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

New Life Bible
‘Do not touch My chosen ones. Do not hurt those who speak for Me.'

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye may not touch mine Anointed ones, And, to my Prophets, may ye do no wrong.

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

Revised Standard Version
saying, "Touch not 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.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Do not touch My anointed ones, And do My prophets no harm."

Contextual Overview

⁷ That was the day that David inaugurated regular worship of praise to God , led by Asaph and his company. ⁸Thank God ! Call out his Name! Tell the whole world who he is and what he's done! Sing to him! Play songs for him! Broadcast all his wonders! Revel in his holy Name, God -seekers, be jubilant! Study God and his strength, seek his presence day and night; Remember all the wonders he performed, the miracles and judgments that came out of his mouth. Seed of Israel his servant! Children of Jacob, his first choice! He is God , our God; wherever you go you come on his judgments and decisions. He keeps his commitments across thousands of generations, the covenant he commanded, The same one he made with Abraham, the very one he swore to Isaac; He posted it in big block letters to Jacob, this eternal covenant with Israel: "I give you the land of Canaan, this is your inheritance; Even though you're not much to look at, a few straggling strangers." ²⁰They wandered from country to country, camped out in one kingdom after another; But he didn't let anyone push them around, he stood up for them against bully-kings: "Don't you dare touch my anointed ones, don't lay a hand on my prophets." ²³Sing to God , everyone and everything! Get out his salvation news every day! Publish his glory among the godless nations, his wonders to all races and religions. And why? Because God is great—well worth praising! No god or goddess comes close in honor. All the popular gods are stuff and nonsense, but God made the cosmos! Splendor and majesty flow out of him, strength and joy fill his place. ²⁸Shout Bravo! to God , families of the peoples, in awe of the Glory, in awe of the Strength: Bravo! Shout Bravo! to his famous Name, lift high an offering and enter his presence! Stand resplendent in his robes of holiness! ³⁰God is serious business, take him seriously; he's put the earth in place and it's not moving. So let Heaven rejoice, let Earth be jubilant, and pass the word among the nations, " God reigns!" Let Ocean, all teeming with life, bellow, let Field and all its creatures shake the rafters; Then the trees in the forest will add their applause to all who are pleased and present before God —he's on his way to set things right! ³⁴Give thanks to God —he is good and his love never quits. Say, "Save us, Savior God, round us up and get us out of these godless places, So we can give thanks to your holy Name, and bask in your life of praise." Blessed be God , the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Then everybody said, "Yes! Amen!" and "Praise God !"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Touch: 1 Kings 19:16, Psalms 105:15, 1 John 2:27

prophets: Genesis 20:7, Genesis 27:39, Genesis 27:40, Genesis 48:19, Genesis 48:20, Genesis 49:8-10

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:3 - touch 1 Chronicles 16:8 - Give thanks

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This passage is interposed by the writer of Chronicles between two sentences of the parallel passage in Samuel. It contains a detailed account of the service which David instituted at this time, a service out of which grew the more elaborate service of the temple. The language of much of the passage is remarkably archaic, and there can be no reasonable doubt that it is in the main an extract from a record of the time of David.

1 Chronicles 16:5

The occurrence of the name “Jeiel” twice in this list is considered suspicious. Hence, the first “Jeiel” is thought to be a corrupt reading for “Aziel” 1 Chronicles 15:20, or “Jaaziel” 1 Chronicles 15:18.

1 Chronicles 16:8

The Psalm here put before us by the Chronicler, as sung liturgically by Asaph and his brethren on the day of the ark’s entrance into Jerusalem, accords closely with the passages in the present Book of Psalms noted in the marg reff.

It is, apparently, a thanksgiving service composed for the occasion out of Psalms previously existing.

1 Chronicles 16:39

This is the first mention that we have of Gibeon as the place at which the tabernacle of the congregation now rested. Previously it had been at Nob 1 Samuel 21:1-6, from where it was removed probably at the time of the slaughter of the priests by Doeg 1 Samuel 22:18-19. It is uncertain whether Gibeon was regarded as a “high place” before the transfer to it of the tabernacle: hut thenceforth, until the completion of Solomon’s Temple, it was the “great high place” 1 Kings 3:4 - a second center of the national worship which for above 50 years was divided between Gibeon and Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 16:40

Upon the altar of the burnt offering - The original altar of burnt-offering Exodus 27:1-8 continued at Gibeon with the tabernacle 2 Chronicles 1:3, 2 Chronicles 1:5. David must have erected a new altar for sacrifice at Jerusalem 1 Chronicles 16:1. The sacrifices commanded by the Law were, it appears, offered at the former place; at the latter were offered voluntary additional sacrifices.

1 Chronicles 16:41

The rest ... - Rather, “the rest of the chosen ones, who were mentioned by name.” The “chosen ones” were “mentioned by name” in 1 Chronicles 15:17-24. A portion of them, namely, those named in 1 Chronicles 16:5-6, conducted the service in Jerusalem; the remainder were employed in the worship at Gibeon.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Chronicles 16:22. 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, Genesis 12:17; Genesis 20:3; and of Jacob, Genesis 31:24; Genesis 34:26; Genesis 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 Hebrews 11:26.