Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible
Psalms 24:7
Lift up your heads] as if to make the entrance more roomy. Everlasting] RM 'ancient,' with an illimitable history behind them.
Lift up your heads] as if to make the entrance more roomy. Everlasting] RM 'ancient,' with an illimitable history behind them.
Verse Psalms 24:7. _LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES_] The address of those who preceded the ark, the gates being addressed instead of the _keepers_ of the gates. Allusion is here made to the triumphal...
LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES - Either the gates of the city, or of the house erected for the worship of God; most probably, as has been remarked, the former. This may be supposed to have been uttere...
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...
EVERLASTING DOORS. age-abiding entrances. The tabernacle (or tent) of David, on Mount Zion, was not ancient. This looks forward to the fulfilment of prophecy in times yet to come. KING OF GLORY. Glori...
The procession has reached the ancient gates of Zion. They are summoned to open high and wide to admit their true King....
_Lift up your heads_ As though they were too low and mean for the entrance of "the high and lofty one" who comes, and in token that all resistance is at an end. _ye everlasting doors_ Or, _ye ancient...
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...
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...
_LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES; AND BE YE LIFT UP, YE EVERLASTING DOORS; AND THE KING OF GLORY SHALL COME IN._ As the ark in the procession draws near the gates of Zion, David calls on them to open...
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...
GATES. — The LXX. and Vulgate miss this fine personification, by rendering “princes” instead of “heads.” “Lift up your gates, O princes.” The sacrifice of the poetry to antiquarianism, by introducin...
שְׂא֤וּ שְׁעָרִ֨ים ׀ רָֽאשֵׁיכֶ֗ם וְֽ֭ הִנָּשְׂאוּ פִּתְחֵ֣י...
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...
(c) Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. (c) David desires the building up of the temple, in which the glory of God should app...
_Ignorances. Hebrew, "defects," as youth is more apt to omit duties than to act very wickedly. Yet it is difficult to decide how grievous such sins may be. (Berthier) --- Passion and ignorance then co...
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...
Psalms 24 _ Proper Psalm for Ascension Day_ (_Evening_). PSALMS 24-26 = _ Day 5_ (_Morning_)....
7._Lift up your heads, O ye gates! _The magnificent and splendid structure of the temple, in which there was more outward majesty than in the tabernacle, not being yet erected, David here speaks of th...
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...
LIFT UP YOUR HEADS, O YE GATES,.... By which the gates of hell are not meant; nor are the words to be understood of the descent of Christ thither, to fetch the souls of Old Testament saints from thenc...
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. Ver. 7. _Lift up your heads, O ye gates, &c._] Here he calleth unto hell gates, say the P...
_Lift up your heads, O ye gates_ The questions, _Who shall ascend God's hill_, namely, to worship? and, _Who shall stand in his holy place_, to minister before and serve him? being answered, the psalm...
THE WELCOME OF THE KING...
Lift up your heads. O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of Glory shall come in. The picture is that of a mighty host moving forward to take possession of Mount Zion, with...
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...
The question was put, Who shall ascend into God's hill and holy place? PSALMS 24:3; to which answer hath been given, and the persons described, PSALMS 24:4. But because there still were impediments in...
Psalms 24:7 up H5375 (H8798) heads H7218 gates H8179 up H5375 (H8734) everlasting H5769 doors H6607 King...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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 24:7 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,...
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 Corinthians 2:8; 1 Kings 8:11; 1 Kings 8:6; 1 Peter 3:22; 2 Peter 3:
Lift up — He speaks here of the gates and doors of the temple, which by faith and the spirit of prophecy, he beheld as already built, whose doors he calls Everlasting, not so much because they were ma...