Psalm 24:1-6

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The King of Glory

A Davidic psalm.

1 The earth and everything in it, the world and its inhabitants, belong to the Lord;

2 for He laid its foundation on the seas and established it on the rivers.

3 Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?^[a] Who may stand in His holy place?

4 The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not set his mind^[b] on what is false, and who has not sworn deceitfully.

5 He will receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

6 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob.^[c] Selah

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Psalm 24:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 24

\\<>\\. This psalm is thought by some of the Jewish writers {d} to have been wrote when the ark was brought from the house of Obededom to the city of David, and put into the place prepared for it by him, 2Sa 6:17; to which reference is supposed to be had in Ps 24:7-10; or after that David had built an altar in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite, and had knowledge of the hill Moriah, as the place where the sanctuary was to be built; called the hill of the Lord, and his holy place, Ps 24:3; however, it was certainly written by David, under the inspiration of the spirit of God; and is a prophecy of Christ, and of the Gospel church, and describes the members of it. {d} Aben Ezra & Kimchi.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

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