Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
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In Context
6This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
8Who is the King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
Cross References
Numbers 10:35When the ark went forward, Moses said, “Rise up, LORD, and let your enemies be scattered! Let those who hate you flee before you!”
1 Kings 8:6The priests brought in the ark of the LORD’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.
Psalms 21:1The king rejoices in your strength, LORD! How greatly he rejoices in your salvation!
Psalms 68:16Why do you look in envy, you rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign? Yes, the LORD will dwell there forever.
Psalms 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness. I will enter into them. I will give thanks to the LORD.
Isaiah 26:2Open the gates, that the righteous nation may enter: the one which keeps faith.
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 →