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Psalms 24:8

Who is the King of glory? may be merely a rhetorical question; but it is far more poetical to suppose that the gates, or the warders, are represented as challenging the comer's right to enter. The choir's response recalls the opening words of the Song of Moses (Exodus 15:2-3), "Jah is my strength and song … Jehovah is a man of war:" while the title Kingreflects its closing words (Exodus 15:18); "Jehovah shall be King for ever and ever." He is now proclaimed as the Victor, who comes as He had purposed, to take His kingdom.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 24:8. _WHO_ IS _THIS KING OF GLORY?_] This is the answer of those who are _within_. Who is this glorious King, for whom ye demand entrance? To which they reply: - _THE LORD STRONG AND M...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY? - This is probably the response of a portion of the choir of singers. The answer is found in the other part of the verse. THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY - Yahweh, strong and mig...

  • 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

    _WHO IS THIS KING OF GLORY? THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY, THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE._ Who is this King of glory? The question is put in order to lend the people seriously to ask it, and so to ponder up...

  • 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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WHO... — But the claim is not unchallenged. The old heathen gates will not at once recognise the new-comer’s right of admission. THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY. — But it is the right of conquest — “Jeho...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    מִ֥י זֶה֮ מֶ֤לֶךְ הַ כָּ֫בֹ֥וד יְ֭הוָה עִזּ֣ו

  • 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

    _Righteous. Though he is always ready to receive the penitent, he will punish the obstinate with severity. (Calmet; Worthington) --- Yet he points out the means of obtaining his favour. (St. Augustine...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._Who is this King of glory? etc _The praises by which the power of God is here magnified are intended to tell the Jews that he did not sit idle in his temple, but took up his abode in it, in order t...

  • 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

    WHO [IS] THIS KING OF GLORY?.... Which question is put by the church, or particular believers; not through ignorance, as the daughters of Jerusalem, Song of Solomon 5:9; or the Pharisees, when Christ...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Who [is] this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Ver. 8. _Who is this King of glory?_] The gates are brought in as asking this question, saith R. David. This is the...

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

    _Who is the King of glory?_ What is the cause of this imperious call? And why? Or, for whom must those gates be opened in so solemn and extraordinary a manner? The answer is, _The Lord strong and migh...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Who is this King of Glory? And the chorus joyfully answers: THE LORD STRONG AND MIGHTY, THE LORD MIGHTY IN BATTLE. The Messiah is the almighty God, mighty, invincible in war, clothed with everlasting...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WELCOME OF THE KING...

  • 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

    This seems to be a prolepsis, or removal of an objection. You will say, What is the cause of this imperious call? and why or for whom must those gates be opened in so solemn and extraordinary a manner...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 24:8 King H4428 glory H3519 LORD H3068 strong H5808 mighty H1368 LORD H3068 mighty H1368 battle H4421...

  • 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...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 24:7 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 city of...

  • 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._ 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 heaven...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Who is this King of glory._ THE KING OF GLORY In the old days, when the king of England wished to enter the city of London through Temple Bar, the gate being closed against him, the herald advanced...

  • 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

    Colossians 2:15; Isaiah 19:24; Isaiah 63:1; Isaiah 9:6; Psalms 45:3

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The Lord — He is no ordinary person, no other than Jehovah, who hath given so many proofs of his almightiness, who hath subdued all his enemies, and is now returned in triumph....

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