Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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Gill's Exposition
Lift up your heads, O ye gates,.... By which the gates of hell are not meant; nor are the words to be understood of the descent of Christ thither, to fetch the souls of Old Testament saints from…
Barnes' Notes
Lift up your heads, O ye gates - Either the gates of the city, or of the house erected for the worship of God; most probably, as has been remarked, the former. This may be supposed to have been…
What is spoken once is spoken a second time in these verses; such repetitions are usual in songs, and have much beauty in them. Here is, 1. Entrance once and again demanded for the King of glory; the…
The procession has reached the ancient gates of Zion. They are summoned to open high and wide to admit their true King.
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