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Psalm 105:15
“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”
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.
17He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.
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God’s warning against harming his prophets follows his rebuke of kings, showing how vulnerable people moving between kingdoms remained under the care of a greater ruler.
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Zechariah 2:8For the LORD of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.Both passages warn against touching God’s people to harm them, and Zechariah describes them as the apple of his eye.
Isaiah 10:27It will happen in that day that his burden will depart from off your shoulder, and his yoke from off your neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the …Both use the language of anointing in connection with relief from oppression or protection against harm.
Genesis 26:11Abimelech commanded all the people, saying, “He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”Abimelech’s command against touching the man or his wife echoes the psalm’s prohibition against harming those under God’s protection.
Genesis 20:7Now therefore, restore the man’s wife. For he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. If you don’t restore her, know for sure that you will …God identifies the man as a prophet and demands his wife’s return, matching the psalm’s concern for protecting his prophets.
1 Chronicles 16:22“Don’t touch my anointed ones! Do my prophets no harm!”Both texts contain the same command forbidding anyone to touch God’s anointed ones or harm his prophets.
1 John 2:27As for you, the anointing which you received from him remains in you, and you don’t need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you concerning …Both use anointing language, though the psalm concerns protection from harm and John concerns teaching and remaining in him.
Matthew 18:6but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a huge millstone were hung around his neck and that he …Both warn against harming those who belong to God, with Matthew addressing those who cause believers to stumble.
Genesis 49:8–33“Judah, your brothers will praise you. Your hand will be on the neck of your enemies. Your father’s sons will bow down before you.The link is limited: Judah receives honor among his brothers, while the psalm records God’s protection of his people.
Numbers 12:6He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.God calls the prophets his own in the psalm and describes speaking to a prophet through visions and dreams in Numbers.
1 Samuel 26:9David said to Abishai, “Don’t destroy him, for who can stretch out his hand against the LORD’s anointed, and be guiltless?”David’s refusal to destroy the LORD’s anointed shares the psalm’s prohibition against harming God’s anointed ones.
2 Samuel 1:14David said to him, “Why were you not afraid to stretch out your hand to destroy the LORD’s anointed?”David challenges the destruction of the LORD’s anointed, echoing the psalm’s warning against touching God’s anointed ones.
2 Kings 1:10Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, “If I am a man of God, then let fire come down from the sky and consume you and your fifty!” Then fire came down from …The psalm forbids harm to prophets; Elijah invokes his standing as a man of God before fire consumes the soldiers.
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The people moving between kingdoms were under God’s care. Even kings answered to him; his command forbade harm against those he claimed as his own.
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