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Psalm 105:14

He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,

12when they were but a few men in number, yes, very few, and foreigners in it.
13They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
14He allowed no one to do them wrong. Yes, he reproved kings for their sakes,
15“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
16He called for a famine on the land. He destroyed the food supplies.
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Notice

Kings faced God's reproof for the sake of a few wandering foreigners, whose safety rested on his intervention rather than their numbers.

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Where else Scripture says this

6 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Genesis 35:5They traveled, and a terror of God was on the cities that were around them, and they didn’t pursue the sons of Jacob.Both passages describe God protecting people as they traveled among others who could have harmed them.
Genesis 20:3But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken; for she is a man’s …God's warning to Abimelech over taking another man's wife shares the psalm's thread of divine intervention against wrong.
Exodus 7:16–17You shall tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. Behold, until …Both passages show God confronting earthly authority on behalf of his people.
Genesis 26:14–33He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.The shared thread is exposure to hostility: Genesis names the Philistines' envy, while the psalm recounts God's restraint of wrongdoing.
Genesis 31:24–29God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”God's warning to Laban concerning Jacob shares the psalm's pattern of restraining others for his people's sake.
John 11:15I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, so that you may believe. Nevertheless, let’s go to him.”Both use the phrase “for your sakes” or “for their sakes”; beyond concern for others' benefit, the connection is limited.
Where this verse fits

Fear for the future. injustice and anger. sermon or Bible study notes.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Read Psalm 105:12–16 and underline whom God protected

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Encouragement

This account does not promise a life free from harm. It records God's defense of a small, vulnerable people: even kings were subject to his reproof.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).