Psalms 24:7
Lift up, O ye gates, your heads, and lift yourselves up, ye age-abiding doors, That the king of glory may come in.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
6This, is the generation of them who inquire of him, who seek thy face, O God of Jacob. [Selah.]
8Who is the king of glory? Yahweh, strong and mighty, Yahweh, mighty in war.
Cross References
Numbers 10:35And it came to pass when the ark set forward, that Moses said: Arise, O Yahweh! and scattered be thy foes, Let them that hate thee flee before thee;
1 Kings 8:6So the priests brought in the ark of the covenant of Yahweh into its place, into the shrine of the house, into the holy of holies,—under the wings of the cherubim.
Psalms 21:1O Yahweh, in thy strength, will the king rejoice, and, in thy salvation, how greatly will he exult!
Psalms 68:16Wherefore start ye up, ye mountains, ye peaks? The mountain God hath coveted for his habitation, Surely, Yahweh will inhabit it ever!
Psalms 118:19Open to me the gates of righteousness, I will enter therein, I will give thanks unto Yah.
Isaiah 26:2Open ye the gates,—That there may enter in—a righteous nation preserving fidelity.
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 →