“ Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. ”
Saying, Touch not mine anointed - That is, This was the language of his “providence.” It was as though God had said this. It is not meant that this was said in so many words, but this is the “poe...
[Saying], Touch not mine (h) anointed, and do my (i) prophets no harm. (h) Those whom I have sanctified to be my people. (i) Meaning, the old fathers, to whom God showed himself plainly, and who se...
CV. Hebrew History from Abraham to Joshua. Psalms 105:1-6 . Introductory. An invitation to praise God. Psalms 105:7-11 . The covenant and promise of Canaan. Psalms 105:12-25 . Yahweh's ki...
prophets: i.e. those who were men of God, and His spokesmen. Abraham so called ( Genesis 20:7 ). See App-49.
15. Saying, Touch not my anointed ones The Psalmist proceeds farther, affirming, that when God made war against kings for the sake of his servants, they were defended by him, not only as he...
Saying , Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Touch not mine anointed - It is supposed that the patriarchs are here intended; but the whole people of Israel may be meant. They were a...
Saying, Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. (Saying), Touch not mine anointed - a verbal allusion to Genesis 26:11 . "Mine anointed" is (Hebrew) plural, and is explained by...
This Ps. and the following one form a closely connected pair, and may be looked on as by the same author. From the closing vv. of Psalms 106 it appears that they were written after the first return...
Anointed. — In the plural, “my anointed ones.” As referring to the patriarchs, the expression is not technical, since they were never, like priests, prophets, and kings in later times, actually an...
Psalms 105:1-45 IT is a reasonable conjecture that the Hallelujah at the end of Psalms 104:1-35 , where it is superfluous, properly belongs to this psalm, which would then be assimilated to Psal...
the Lord's Covenant with Israel Psalms 105:1-15 This psalm and the next are a pair, probably composed during the Exile in Babylon. They are evidently derived in part from the old Tabernacle ser...
This and the following psalm are companions. They reveal the two sides of the relation between God and His people during a long period. This one sings the song of His faithfulness and power; while th...
The Psalmist, to awaken in his own heart a proper sense of God's goodness, and to stir up suitable and corresponding affections in himself and the Church towards the Lord, for such love, in these ver...
Saying, Touch not mine anointed ,.... Or, "mine anointed ones"; my Christs, as Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were, who, though not anointed with material oil, yet were all that, that such were, who in...
Psalms 105:15 [Saying], Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm. Ver. 15. Touch not mine anointed, &c. ] This God speaketh not of kings, but to kings, concerning his people who h...
When they were but few in number Hebrew, מתי מספר, methee mispar, men of number , so few as easily to be numbered, in opposition to what their posterity afterward were, as the sand of the sea wit...
The Divine Promise to the Patriarchs; Providences Concerning the Patriarchs. 8 He hath remembered his covenant for e...
Touch not; hurt not, as this word is used of these very persons, Genesis 26:11,29 , and elsewhere. Mine anointed; my prophets, as the next words explain it, to wit, Abraham, and Isaac, and Jac...
INTRODUCTION “This Psalm,” says Perowne, “like the 78th and the 106th, has for its theme the early history of Israel, and God’s wonders wrought on behalf of the nation; but it differs from both thos...
This psalm, to Psalms 105:15 , is the same as 1 Chronicles 16:8 : whence it is evident that David was the author. It celebrates the dealings of God with Israel, from the call of Abraham to their se...
He is the Lord our God: His judgments are in all the earth. God in Jewish history, working for His people I. His absolute sovereignty (verse 9). The selection of Abraham to distinguished privil...
EXPOSITION This is sometimes called a "Hallelujah psalm," since it ends with that phrase. It is a song of praise to God for his dealings with his people, resembling in its general character Psa...
Thanksgiving for God's Benefits. After an exhortation to praise God, directed especially to the congregation of Israel, the psalmist offers his reasons for the admonition presented, in a summary o...
1 John 2:27 ; 1 Kings 19:16 ; Genesis 20:7 ; Genesis 26:11 ; Genesis 27:39 ; Genesis 27:40 ; Genesis 48:19 ; Genesis 48:20 ; Genesis 49:8-33 ; Zechariah 2:8
Anointed — My prophets, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; who are called God's anointed, because they were consecrated to be his peculiar people, and to be kings and princes in their families. And they ar...