Psalm 24

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 24:7

24:7 {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 appear and under the figure of this temple, he also prays for the spiritual temple, which is eternal because of the promise which was made to the temple, as it is written, Psalms 132:14. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 24:1-10

Psalms 18:0 A song of victory. It opens with ejaculatory expressions of triumph for deliverance. All nature is described as convulsed when the Almighty presses to the rescue. The next division is meditation on the principles involved, the whole closing with a further outburst of triumph and confidence. 2 Samuel 22:0 is a copy of this ode saying a few variations, and the student is referred to our treatment of it at that place. Psalms 19:0 God’s revelation in the world and in the Word. We have a... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:1

CONTENTS Here is another gospel Psalm, in which the Holy Ghost, by the pen of his servant David, describes the Lord Jesus Christ as the glorious Mediator, head, and King of his Church. He is first described as Him by whom Jehovah made the world; and then he is pointed out both in his kingdom of providence and kingdom of grace; and a demand is made upon the heavenly gates to receive this glorious Mediator, returning from the great work of redemption with triumph and holy joy. A Psalm of David. read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:1-2

The sovereignty of Jehovah over the universe is here beautifully set forth by right of creation; and all the inhabitants, in like manner, are his by the same right, as their Author and Maker. And the sovereignty of the kingdom of grace is also as beautifully set forth, inasmuch as God hath created all things by Jesus Christ, so hath he redeemed his church and his people by him. Hence he hath given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as he hath given him. John... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:3

The Prophet having thus established the lawful right of the Mediator, as Lord of all, by virtue both of creation and redemption, to universal dominion, he here looks above the earth to the heavens, and contemplating the gospel-church, as represented by the holy hill of Zion, he puts the question, Who is the man that shall be found worthy for communion here with God, and the everlasting enjoyment of him hereafter? Reader, pause over the question. It is a solemn one; and when, you have duly... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:4

Who is this? Where is the man that can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from sin? Proverbs 20:9 . Where shall we look among all the fallen sons of Adam for one to answer this description? All have sinned, and come short of God's glory. But there is a man, whose name is Wonderful, and who hath been found worthy, as the representative of our poor nature, both to ascend and to dwell there; even Jesus, the Glory-man, the God-man, who, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:5

This becomes a confirmation of the above: for who, but Jesus, can receive the blessing? What blessing? The blessing of covenant-redemption, surely, must be meant, and which includes every other. Hence Jehovah saith, and saith it in reference to this redemption by the Mediator, - My righteousness shall be forever, and may salvation from generation to generation. Isaiah 51:8 . And doth not Jesus call God the Father the God of his salvation? Psalms 21:1-5; Psalms 21:1-5 . These are precious... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:6

Reader, do remark, in confirmation of what went before, that here is now a change of persons. The two preceding verses treated of one person, and one only. Here we have a plurality of persons, even a generation. And what doth all this mean, but that the generation of Christ seekers, even that seed of Christ which God the Father promised him ( Isa_44:4-5; Isa_53:10 ), and concerning whom Christ himself speaks (Psalms 22:30 .) shall, by virtue of his righteousness, and their right and title in... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:7-10

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, that God the Holy Ghost was pleased to shadow it forth in the Old Testament church, when the ark was conducted with all the splendour and gracefulness of holy worship to Mount Zion. See 1 Chronicles 15:1-29 etc. But the glorious, event itself was accomplished when the Lord Jesus Christ, having... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:10

REFLECTIONS READER, short as this Psalm is, yet what glorious things are contained in it! What volumes are folded up in its bosom. Here is enough to excite inquiry, and to exercise contemplation upon the person and work of Jesus to all eternity. Let us seek grace to gather every improvement from it, which God the Holy Ghost evidently designed, in causing it to be written for the use of the church; and while we learn from it, that the earth, and all its inhabitants, the lower and the higher... read more

Geneva Study Bible - Psalms 24:7

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 24:1-10

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:1

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:1-2

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:3

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:4

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:5

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:6

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:7-10

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 24:10

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