Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
8Who is this King of Glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Cross References
Numbers 10:35Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
1 Kings 8:6Then the priests brought the ark of the covenant of the LORD to its place in the inner sanctuary of the temple, the Most Holy Place, beneath the wings of the cherubim.
Psalms 21:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, the king rejoices in Your strength. How greatly he exults in Your salvation!
Psalms 68:16Why do you gaze in envy, O mountains of many peaks? This is the mountain God chose for His dwelling, where the LORD will surely dwell forever.
Psalms 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter and give thanks to the LORD.
Isaiah 26:2Open the gates so a righteous nation may enter—one that remains faithful.
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 →