Psalms 24:1-10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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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 ocean above the firmament (Genesis 16 f.*).

Psalms 24:3-6. The moral qualities required of the worshippers in the Temple (cf. Psalms 15).

Psalms 24:7-10. Once more Yahweh in His glory enters the Temple. The Ps. may have been composed for the feast of the Encæ nia (cf. John 10:22 *, p. 104), which celebrated the purification of the Temple in 165 B.C. by Judas Maccabæ us (p. 607).

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Psalms 24:1-10

1 The earth is the LORD'S, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.

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.a Selah.

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

8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.

9 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.

10 Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.