Psalms 24:7
Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.
8Who is this King of Glory? the Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle.
Cross References
Numbers 10:35And when the ark was lifted up, Moses said: Arise, O Lord, and let thy enemies be scattered, and let them that hate thee, flee from before thy face.
1 Kings 8:6And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of the Lord into its place, into the oracle of the temple, into the holy of holies under the wings of the cherubims.
Psalms 21:1Unto the end. A psalm for David.
Psalms 68:16The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain.
Psalms 118:19Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord.
Isaiah 26:2Open ye the gates, and let the just nation, that keepeth the truth, 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 →