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NASB | Psalm 24:7 ¶ Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, O ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in! |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 24:7 ¶ Lift up your heads, O gates, And be lifted up, ancient doors, That the King of glory may come in. |
Bible Question: What is the meaning of this verse in context to the chapter? What is meant by the words, Heads, gates and ancient doors? |
Bible Answer: Hello cognute, C.H.Spurgeon, from his Treasury of David gives these insights: "Ver. 7. These last verses reveal to us the great representative man, who answered to the full character laid down, and therefore by his own right ascended the holy hill of Zion. Our Lord Jesus Christ could ascend into the hill of the Lord because his hands were clean and his heart was pure, and if we by faith in him are conformed to his image we shall enter too. We have here a picture of our Lord's glorious ascent. We see him rising from amidst the little group upon Olivet, and as the cloud receives him, angels reverently escort him to the gates of heaven. The ancient gates of the eternal temple are personified and addressed in song by the attending cohorts of rejoicing spirits. "Lo his triumphal chariot waits, And angels chant the solemn lay. Lift up your heads, ye heavenly gates; Ye everlasting doors, give way." They are called upon "to lift up their heads, "as though with all their glory they were not great enough for the All glorious King. Let all things do their utmost to honour so great a Prince; let the highest heaven put on unusual loftiness in honour of the King of Glory. He who, fresh from the cross and the tomb, now rides through the gates of the New Jerusalem is higher than the heavens; great and everlasting as they are, those gates of pearl are all unworthy of him before whom the heavens are not pure, and who charges his angels with folly. Lift up your heads, O ye gates." "Ver. 7. Lift up your heads, O ye gates. The gates of the temple were indeed as described, very lofty and magnificent, in proportion to the gigantic dimensions of that extraordinary edifice. But the phrase, Lift up your heads, refers not so much to their loftiness, as to the upper part being formed so as to be lifted up; while the under portion opened in folding doors. [Robert Jamieson, in "Paxton's Illustrations of Scriptures]." I trust this will be of help, BradK |
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