Psalms 47:5

God is gone up He must therefore have previously -come down." God is said to -come down" when He manifests His presence by active interposition in the affairs of the world. (Genesis 11:5; Genesis 11:7; Isaiah 31:4; Isaiah 64:1; Isaiah 64:3). He is said to -go up," when, His work over, He as it were returns to heaven (Psalms 68:18). The triumphal procession, carrying up (at least in ancient times) the Ark which was the symbol of God's presence to the Temple which was the symbol of heaven, and celebrating the victory which He had won for them with shouts and blowing of trumpets, was the outward and visible emblem of this -ascension," and suggests the form of the expression here. Cp. 2 Samuel 6:15.