Psalms 24:7 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. ”

Psalms 24:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Lift up your heads, O ye gates - Either the gates of the city, or of the house erected for the worship of God; most probably, as has been remarked, the former. This may be supposed to have been u...
Psalms 24:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(c) Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. (c) David desires the building up of the temple, in which the glory of God should ap...
Psalms 24:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

XXIV. Psalms 24:1 f. Yahweh the Creator. Psalms 24:2 . For the water under the earth, cf. Exodus 20:4 . There was sea below the earth, another on a level with the earth, and a third ocea...
Psalms 24:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

everlasting doors . age-abiding entrances. The tabernacle (or tent) of David, on Mount Zion, was not ancient. This looks forward to the fulfilment of prophecy in times yet to come. King of glory ....
Psalms 24:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates! The magnificent and splendid structure of the temple, in which there was more outward majesty than in the tabernacle, not being yet erected, David here spe...
Psalms 24:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 529 THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST TYPIFIED Psalms 24:7-10 . Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is this King of...
Psalms 24:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Lift up your heads, O ye gates - The address of those who preceded the ark, the gates bei...
Psalms 24:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. As the ark in the procession draws near the gates of Zion, David calls on them to...
Psalms 24:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

This Ps. is generally, and very appropriately, connected with the occasion when David brought up the ark from the house of Obededom to the tent prepared for it on Mt. Zion. It declares the universal...
Psalms 24:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Gates. — The LXX. and Vulgate miss this fine personification, by rendering “princes” instead of “heads.” “Lift up your gates, O princes.” The sacrifice of the poetry to antiquarianism, by introdu...
Psalms 24:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 24:1-10 EWALD'S widely accepted view that this psalm is a composite of two fragments rests on a somewhat exaggerated estimate of the differences in tone and structure of the parts. These ar...
Psalms 24:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Entering Jehovah's Holy Place Psalms 24:1-10 Psalms 22:1-31 tells of the cross; Psalms 23:1-6 of the crook; Psalms 24:1-10 of the crown. This great choral hymn was evidently composed to c...
Psalms 24:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is the final psalm of the three, and as in Psa 22:1-31 the words so far exceed the possibility of exhaustion by any circumstances originating them as to create an opinion unanimously in favor of...
Psalms 24:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a sublimity there is in these blessed words; and what a rich treasure they contain, in reference to the person and glory of our almighty Mediator! So important a doctrine was the triumph of Jesu...
Psalms 24:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 24 Proper Psalm for Ascension Day ( Evening ). Psalms 24-26 = Day 5 ( Morning ).
Psalms 24:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Lift up your heads, O ye gates ,.... By which the gates of hell are not meant; nor are the words to be understood of the descent of Christ thither, to fetch the souls of Old Testament saints from th...
Psalms 24:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Ver. 7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, &c. ] Here he calleth unto hell gates, say...
Psalms 24:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Lift up your heads, O ye gates The questions, Who shall ascend God's hill , namely, to worship? and, Who shall stand in his holy place , to minister before and serve him? being answered, the psal...
Psalms 24:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The King of Glory. 7 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory sha...
Psalms 24:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The question was put, Who shall ascend into God's hill and holy place? Psalms 24:3 ; to which answer hath been given, and the persons described, Psalms 24:4-6 . But because there still were imp...
Psalms 24:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Call To Let YHWH Enter His Holy City, Bringing About A Revelation Of Who He Is ( Psalms 24:7-10 ). Psalms 24:7 ‘Lift up your heads, O you gates, And be you lifted up, you ancient (everlast...
Psalms 24:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION “This grand choral hymn was in all probability composed and sung on the occasion of the removal of the ark from the house of Obed-Edom to the city of David, on Mount Zion ( 2 Samuel 6 )...
Psalms 24:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 24:7-8 I. The primary reference of the words of the text is to the bringing up of the ark from the house of Obed-edom into the tent prepared for its reception within the precincts of the ci...
Psalms 24:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 24:1 . The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof, And therefore it is also the believer's. The real fullness of the earth belongs to the Christian. «The meek shall inherit the ear...
Psalms 24:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 24:1 . The fulness thereof. Targum, all its creatures; all that the earth contains and supports. Psalms 24:4 . Not lifted up his soul to vanity; that is, to an idol. So the LXX, μαται...
Psalms 24:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Lift up your heads, O ye gates. The ascension of Christ It is generally admitted by expositors that these words have a secondary, if not a primary, reference to the return of the Mediator to he...
Psalms 24:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION AT first sight this psalm seems to be composed of two quite separate fragments ( Psalms 24:1-19 and Psalms 24:7-19 ); whence Ewald has laid it down that, in their origin, the two...
Psalms 24:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Lift up your heads. O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. The picture is that of a mighty host moving forward to take possession of Mount Zion, wit...
Psalms 24:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 2:8 ; 1 Kings 8:11 ; 1 Kings 8:6 ; 1 Peter 3:22 ; 2 Peter 3:18 ; 2 Samuel 6:17 ; Ephesians 4:8-10 ; Haggai 2:7 ; Haggai 2:9 ; Isaiah 26:2 ; James 2:1 ; Malachi 3:1 ; Mark 1...
Psalms 24:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Lift up — He speaks here of the gates and doors of the temple, which by faith and the spirit of prophecy, he beheld as already built, whose doors he calls Everlasting, not so much because they were...

Psalms 24:7 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 24:7 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Psalms 24:7 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 24:7 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 24:7 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 24:7 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 24:7 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 24:7 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 24:7 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 24:7 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 24:7 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 24:7 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Psalms 24:7 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 24:7 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 24:7 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 24:7 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 24:7 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 24:7 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 24:7 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes