Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 24:6
The generation — The true progeny which God regards. Face — His grace and favour, which is often called God's face.
The generation — The true progeny which God regards. Face — His grace and favour, which is often called God's face.
Verse Psalms 24:6. _THIS_ IS _THE GENERATION_] This is the description of people who are such as God can approve of, and delight in. _THAT SEEK THY FACE, O JACOB._] It is most certain that אלהי _Elo...
THIS IS THE GENERATION OF THEM THAT SEEK HIM - This describes the race of those who seek Him; or, this is their character. The word “generation” here is used evidently in the sense of “race, people, o...
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)...
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...
THIS. Such: i.e. not. "new cart" (2 Samuel 6:3), but the Kohathites. See Numbers 7:9; Numbers 4:2; Numbers 4:15.
_generation_ i.e. class, as in Psalms 12:7; Psalms 14:5; Psalms 73:15. _that seek him_ R.V., that seek after him. Two words for _seek_are used in this verse. Both may be used of the outward act of vis...
The moral conditions required for access to the presence of so great a God. His Holiness corresponds to His Majesty. Psalms 15:1 ff. and Isaiah 33:14 ff. are parallel in substance as well as form....
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...
_THIS IS THE GENERATION OF THEM THAT SEEK HIM, THAT SEEK THY FACE, O JACOB. SELAH._ The generation of them that seek - i:e., that seek to be among the true sons of Jacob, a seeker after God, and so a...
24:6 Jacob. (b-16) Or 'thy face [in] Jacob.'...
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...
O JACOB] RV 'O _God of_ Jacob.' SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4....
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...
O JACOB. — The address to Jacob is certainly wrong, and therefore many critics, following the LXX. and Syriac, rightly insert, as in our margin, the words “O God of.”...
זֶ֭ה דֹּ֣ור _דֹּרְשָׁ֑יו_† מְבַקְשֵׁ֨י פָנֶ֖יךָ יַעֲקֹ֣ב סֶֽלָה
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...
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
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...
This [is] the (b) generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. (b) Though circumcision separates the carnal seed of Jacob, from the Gentiles, yet he who seeks God, is the tru...
_World. God's truth or fidelity in performing his promises, and his tender mercies towards his people, are the motives most frequently urged. (Calmet)_...
Reader, do remark, in confirmation of what went before, that here is now a change of persons. The two preceding verses treated of one person, and one only. Here we have a plurality of persons, even a...
Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
6._This is the generation. _I have just now observed, that by the demonstrative pronoun _this_, the Psalmist erases from the catalogue of the servants of God all counterfeit Israelites, who, trusting...
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...
THIS [IS] THE GENERATION OF THEM THAT SEEK HIM,.... The persons above described are such, who in every age are the generation of the children of God, and are accounted by him for a generation; they ar...
This [is] the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. Ver. 6. _This is the generation of them that seek him_] These are the true seekers, far different from those that s...
_This is the generation of them that seek him_ The true progeny, which God regards, that make it their care and study to know him, and his mind and will, and to please and serve him. Whereby he reflec...
THE COMING OF THE KING OF GLORY. The Messianic kingdom. A psalm of David, another hymn of the Messiah and His kingdom, to prepare the believers of the Old Testament for His coming and to inspire the...
This is the generation of them that seek Him, that seek thy face, O Jacob, desiring to follow the God of Jacob, to do His bidding, to enter into an ever more perfect communion with Him, for in inquiri...
O JACOB: Or, O God of Jacob...
1-6 We ourselves are not our own; our bodies, our souls, are not. Even those of the children of men are God's, who know him not, nor own their relation to him. A soul that knows and considers its own...
THE GENERATION; the true progeny which God regards; whereby he reflects upon them, who boasted and trusted to their carnal generation or descent from Jacob. THAT SEEK HIM, to wit, God, mentioned in th...
Psalms 24:6 Jacob H3290 generation H1755 seek H1875 (H8802) seek H1245 (H8764) face H6440 Selah H5542 T
WHO MAY ENTER THE HOLY PLACE OF YHWH? (PSALMS 24:3) Psalms 24:3 ‘Who will ascend into the hill of YHWH? And who will stand in his holy place?' But now having considered the greatness of YHWH an imp...
Psalms 24:3 I. The men who approach a holy God must be holy. Reason and common-sense proclaim, "Like draws to like." The loftiest form of worship is always imitation. "Be ye therefore followers of God...
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.»...
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...
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...
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
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 24:3 Every Israelite has the right to attend worship at the sanctuary (THE HILL OF THE LORD, HIS HOLY PLACE), but not everyone will really r
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...
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...
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...
1 Peter 2:9; Isaiah 53:10; John 1:47; Psalms 105:4; Psalms 22:30;...