Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
6This is the generation of those who seek after him, who seek thy face, [even] Jacob. Selah.
8Who is the King of glory? LORD strong and mighty, LORD mighty in battle.
Cross References
Numbers 10:35And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, O LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered, and let those who hate thee flee before thee.
1 Kings 8:6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of LORD to its place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.
Psalms 21:1The king shall joy in thy strength, O LORD. And in thy salvation how greatly he shall rejoice!
Psalms 68:16Why look ye askance, ye high mountains, at the mountain which God has desired for his abode? Yea, LORD will dwell [in it] forever.
Psalms 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to LORD.
Isaiah 26:2Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keeps faith may enter in.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 24:4-7
The Character of True Israelites. 3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall stand in his holy place? 4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord , and righteousness from the God of his salvation. 6 This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. From this world, and the fulness thereof, the psalmist's meditations rise, of a sudden to the great… Read the whole commentary →