Psalmen 24:6

6 Dat is het geslacht dergenen, die naar Hem vragen, die Uw aangezicht zoeken, dat is Jakob! Sela.

Psalmen 24:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 24:6

This [is] the generation of them that seek him
The persons above described are such, who in every age are the generation of the children of God, and are accounted by him for a generation; they are such that seek him, in the first place, with their whole hearts, and in Christ, where they find him;

that seek thy face, O Jacob.
By the "face" of God is meant the favour of God, the discoveries of his love, the light of his countenance, than which nothing is more desirable to gracious souls, or more sought after by them; and by Jacob is meant the God of Jacob; and so Apollinarius has it in his metaphrase; see ( Psalms 10:1 ) ; unless Christ should be intended, one of whose names is Israel, ( Isaiah 49:3 ) ; or the words may be supplied, as they are by some Jewish writers ^F13, "this is Jacob"; or the persons before described are the seed of Jacob, and who are called by his name: and it may be observed, that the church of God often bears the same name, ( Isaiah 43:1 ) ( Isaiah 44:1 Isaiah 44:5 ) ; and then the sense is, the persons whose characters are given above are fit to ascend, and stand in the holy hill of God, are Israelites indeed, in whom there is no guile.

Selah; on this word, (See Gill on Psalms 3:2).

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Aben Ezra, Kimchi, & Ben Melech in loc.

Psalmen 24:6 In-Context

4 Die rein van handen, en zuiver van hart is, die zijn ziel niet opheft tot ijdelheid, en die niet bedriegelijk zweert;

5 Die zal den zegen ontvangen van den HEERE, en gerechtigheid van den God zijns heils.

6 Dat is het geslacht dergenen, die naar Hem vragen, die Uw aangezicht zoeken, dat is Jakob! Sela.

7 Heft uw hoofden op, gij poorten, en verheft u, gij eeuwige deuren, opdat de Koning der ere inga!

8 Wie is de Koning der ere? De HEERE, sterk en geweldig, de HEERE, geweldig in den strijd.