Text -- Psalms 24:7 (NET)

24:7 Look up, you gates! Rise up, you eternal doors! Then the majestic king will enter!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 24:7

¹ tn Heb “lift up your heads.” The gates of the Lord’s dwelling place are here personified. The idiom “lift up the head” often means “be confident, bold” (see Judg 8:28; Job 10:15; Ps 83:2; Zech 1:21).

² tn Heb “lift yourselves up.”

³ tn Or “king of glory.”

⁴ tn Following the imperatives of the preceding lines, the prefixed verbal form with vav (ו) conjunctive indicates purpose or result.