Geneva Bible Translation NotesPsalms 24
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Read Psalms 24 in the BiblePsalms 24:2
For he hath founded it upon the {a} seas, and established it upon the floods.
(a) He notes two things: the one, that the earth to man's judgment seems above the waters: and next, that God miraculously preserves the earth, that it is not drowned with the waters, which naturally are above it.
(a) He notes two things: the one, that the earth to man's judgment seems above the waters: and next, that God miraculously preserves the earth, that it is not drowned with the waters, which naturally are above it.
Psalms 24:6
This [is] the {b} generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
(b) Though circumcision separates the carnal seed of Jacob, from the Gentiles, yet he who seeks God, is the true Jacob and an Israelite.
(b) Though circumcision separates the carnal seed of Jacob, from the Gentiles, yet he who seeks God, is the true Jacob and an Israelite.
Psalms 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, Ps 132:14.
(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, Ps 132:14.
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Psalms 24:1
(g) He does not set his happiness in the pleasures of this world, but in the fear and service of God.