Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them 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 even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in. See Gill on Psa 24:7. This is repeated on account of the backwardness and negligence of…
Barnes' Notes
Lift up your heads ... - The repetition here is designed to give force and emphasis to what is uttered. The response in Psa 24:5 is slightly varied from the response in Psa 24:8; but the same general…
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…
Challenge and response are repeated, with some slight variations, and one important change.