Psalms Chapter 24 verse 7 Holy Bible
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; And be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.
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Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.
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Lift up your heads, ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.
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Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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Lift up your heads, you gates; Be lifted up, you everlasting doors: The King of glory will come in.
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Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!
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Psalms 24 : 7 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 7. - Lift up your heads, O ye gates. So sang one half of the choir, calling upon the gates to throw themselves wide open to their full height, that free entrance might he given to the approaching sacred fabric. And be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors. Pleonastic, But giving the emphasis of repetition, and adding the epithet "everlasting," because the tabernacle was viewed as about to be continued in the temple, and the temple was designed to be God's house "for ever" (1 Kings 8:13). And the King of glory shall come in. God was regarded as dwelling between the cherubim on the mercy-seat, where the Shechinah from time to time made its appearance. The entrance of the ark into the tabernacle was thus the "coming in of the King of glory."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(7) 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 introducing the idea of a "portcullis," is little less excusable. The poet deems the ancient gateways of the conquered castle far too low for the dignity of the approaching Monarch, and calls on them to open wide and high to give room for His passage.Everlasting doors.--Better, ancient doors, "gates of old;" an appropriate description of the gates of the grim old Jebusite fortress, "so venerable with unconquered age." For olam in this sense comp. the giants "of old" (Genesis 6:4), the "everlasting hills" (Genesis 49:26, &c.), and see Note to Psalm 89:1.The King of glory shall come in.--This name, in which the claim for admission is made, connects the psalm immediately with the ark; that glory, which had fled with the sad cry Ichabod, has returned; the symbol of the Divine presence and of victory comes to seek a lasting resting-place.
