24:7 Evidently David pictured in his mind the closed gates of Jerusalem as though they were heads bowed. He called on these personified gates to lift their heads so the great King could enter. Normally people bow their heads as majesty passes, but in this figure the gates did the reverse.
24:8 David explained that this glorious King was Yahweh in response to the question of the personified gates and perhaps the people. The Lord is glorious because He is omnipotent as seen in His victory over His enemies. Israel's divine King was all glorious because He was unconquerable.
24:9-10 To underline the glory of Yahweh as the great King, David repeated the exhortation and the explanation contained in verses 7 and 8 respectively.
God's people should honor and glorify the Lord because He is the strongest of all Kings. We should realize that communion with such an One requires purity in thought, word, and deed. This will be an appropriate psalm to recite when the Lord Jesus returns to earth to set up His kingdom for 1, 000 years.71
