Psalms 24:7-10
Lift up your heads, O gates!
And be lifted up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The Lord, strong and mighty,
the Lord, mighty in battle!
Lift up your heads, O gates!
And lift them up, O ancient doors,
that the King of glory may come in.
Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts,
he is the King of glory! Selah
Tag: The King of Glory - Praise Him!!
King David is in the midst of a praise song in this Psalms. He is rejoicing about God and God’s great care for him. He wants the hearer of this song to reach up in praise to the Lord of Host - Yahweh Saba!! The King of Glory is His name - Yahweh Kabod!! Vine says this about the Hebrew word of “glory:”
Kabod refers to the great physical weight or “quantity” of a thing. In Nah. 2:9 one should read: “For there is no limit to the treasure—a great quantity of every kind of desirable object.” Isa. 22:24 likens Eliakim to a peg firmly anchored in a wall upon which is hung “all the [weighty things] of his father’s house.” This meaning is required in Hos. 9:11, where kabod represents a great crowd of people or “multitude”:
God is weighty!! God exceeds our finite mind grasp of things. Yet, David plainly tells us about Him. He is “the Lord, strong and mighty, the Lord, mighty in battle!” He is the “Lord of Hosts.” We can rejoice because God is not a little God. God is a weighty God, beyond our total comprehension, but described in the Psalms so clearly and plainly for us to worship and sing praise.
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