Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, O ye gates! Lift yourselves up, ye everlasting doors, That the king of glory may come in!
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
6This is the race of them that seek him; They that seek thy face are Jacob. [[Pause.]]
8“Who is this king of glory?” Jehovah, strong and mighty; Jehovah, mighty in battle.
Cross References
Psalms 21:1“For the leader of the music. A psalm of David.” The king rejoiceth in thy strength, O LORD! Yea, he doth greatly exult in thy protection.
Psalms 68:16Why frown ye, ye many-topped hills, At the hill in which God is pleased to dwell, In which Jehovah will dwell for ever?
Psalms 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness, That I may go in, and praise the LORD!
Isaiah 26:2Open ye the gates, That the righteous nation may enter in, The nation that keepeth the truth.
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 →