21 Bible Verses about The Lord's Anointed

He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed."

Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.'

But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"

The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."

David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"

And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the LORD's anointed.'"

This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head."

The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed.

Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."

Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.

Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:

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

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

Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying,

with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.

The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."

Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!

Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.

The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.

You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah