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Psalms 24:9-10

Challenge and response are repeated, with some slight variations, and one important change.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LIFT UP YOUR HEADS ... - The repetition here is designed to give force and emphasis to what is uttered. The response in Psalms 24:5 is slightly varied from the response in Psalms 24:8; but the same ge...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 24 The Chief Shepherd, the King of Glory _ 1. Who shall dwell with Him when He comes? (Psalms 24:1)_ 2. The glorious manifestation of the King (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 ocean above the f...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 529 THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST TYPIFIED Psalms 24:7. 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 glory? Th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 24 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE The Admission of Worshippers into the Presence of the Previously Admitted King. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 24:1-2, Jehovah's Ownership of the World the Ground for Worshi...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES; EVEN LIFT THEM UP, YE EVERLASTING DOORS; AND THE KING OF GLORY SHALL COME IN._ Lift up your heads. The repetition of Psalms 24:7 is to bring out with greater emphasis...

  • 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 s...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 1:41 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. The notes explain some of the words with a *star by them. Tap the * before a word to show an explanation. The translated Bible tex...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שְׂא֤וּ שְׁעָרִ֨ים ׀ רָֽאשֵׁיכֶ֗ם וּ֭ שְׂאוּ פִּתְחֵ֣י...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 24:1 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 are obvio...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    ENTERING JEHOVAH'S HOLY PLACE Psalms 24:1 Psalms 22:1 tells of the cross; Psalms 23:1 of the crook; Psalms 24:1 of the crown. This grea

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Mild. Only rebels are made the victims of justice. (Haydock)_...

  • 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 Jesus...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS PSALMS 23 AND 24. Psalms 23, 24 go in a certain sense by themselves, giving the perfect confidence in the Shepherd, Jehovah, founded on the experience of what He is in...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES EVEN LIFT [THEM] UP, YE EVERLASTING DOORS; AND THE KING OF GLORY SHALL COME IN. Psalms 24:7. This is repeated on account of the backwardness and negligence of churches,...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift [them] up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Ver. 9. _Lift up your heads, &c._] See Psalms 24:7. And learn, that in matters of momen...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Lift up your heads_, &c. The same verse is repeated again, to awaken the dulness of mankind, who are so hardly brought to a serious preparation for such solemnities; and to signify the great importan...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WELCOME OF THE KING...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. The Messiah is eager to enter into the hearts of all those who will accept His love and me...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    7-10 The splendid entry here described, refers to the solemn bringing in of the ark into the tent David pitched for it, or the temple Solomon built for it. We may also apply it to the ascension of Ch...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The same verse is repeated again, partly to shame and awaken the dulness of mankind, who are so hardly brought to a serious preparation for such solemnities; and partly to signify the great worth and...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 24:9 up H5375 (H8798) heads H7218 gates H8179 up H5375 (H8798) everlasting H5769 doors H6607 King...

  • 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). Psalms 24:7 ‘Lift up your heads, O you gates, And be you lifted up, you ancient (everlasting) doors...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 24:7 I. Notice the historical and original application of these words to the King who dwelt with Israel. The thought of God in these words is mainly that of a God of strong and victorious ener...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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 earth.»...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The one who shall stand before Jehovah. CHARACTER: God. CONCLUSION: Those who have been made meet for heaven shall be brought safely into God's presence. While none may venture to meet God...

  • 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, ματαια. Id...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Lift up your heads, O ye gates._ A TRIUMPHAL ENTRANCE I. The great thing to desire is the entrance of the king of glory into our souls. Without it thou wilt be like a house without a tenant--cold,...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 24:1. This psalm seems to be intended for public worship—perhaps a celebration remembering how David brought the ark of the Lord into Jerusalem (2

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 24:7 The people bearing the ark announce God’s presence in the ark, seeking entry into his sanctuary (v. Psalms 24:7). The people inside the sanctuary reply,...

  • The 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). It...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AT first sight this psalm seems to be composed of two quite separate fragments (Psalms 24:1 and Psalms 24:7); whence Ewald has laid it down that, in their origin, the two parts were wholly...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein (Psalms 24:1). It all belongs to God. For he hath founded it upon the seas, he established it upon the flood...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Chronicles 28:4; 1 Kings 8:13; Ecclesiastes 1:4; Exodus 21:5;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Lift up — The same verse is repeated again, to awaken the dulness of mankind, who are so hardly brought to a serious preparation for such solemnities; and to signify the great importance of the matter...

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