Psalms 24:7
Lift high your heads, you gates – Higher, you ancient doors; welcome the glorious king.
Open English Bible (US)
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In Context
6Such must be those who resort to him, and seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah
8“Who is the glorious king?” “The Lord strong and heroic, the Lord heroic in battle.”
Cross References
Psalms 21:1The king rejoices, Lord, in your might, how he exults because of your help!
Psalms 68:16You high-peaked mountains, why look you askance at the mountain which God has desired for his home whereon the Lord will live forever?
Psalms 118:19“Open to me the gates of victory. I would enter therein and give thanks to the Lord.” (The Welcome)
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 →