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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Psalms 24"
description: "PSALM 24   :-. God"
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PSALM 24

. God's supreme sovereignty requires a befitting holiness
of life and heart in His worshippers; a sentiment sublimely
illustrated by describing His entrance into the sanctuary, by the
symbol of His worship—the ark, as requiring the most profound
homage to the glory of His Majesty.

**1. fulness**—everything.
**world**—the habitable
globe, with
**they that dwell**—forming
a parallel expression to the first clause.

**2.** Poetically represents the
facts of [Genesis 1:9](../../../kjv/genesis/1/9).

**3, 4.** The form of a question
gives vivacity. *Hands, tongue,* and *heart* are organs of
action, speech, and feeling, which compose character.
**hill of the Lord**—(compare
[Psalms 2:6](../../../kjv/psalms/2/6), &c.). His Church—the
true or invisible, as typified by the earthly sanctuary.

**4. lifted up his soul**—is to
set the affections ([Psalms 25:1](../../../kjv/psalms/25/1)) on
an object; here,
**vanity**—or, any false
thing, of which swearing falsely, or *to falsehood,* is a
specification.

**5. righteousness**—the rewards
which God bestows on His people, or the grace to secure those rewards
as well as the result.

**6. Jacob**—By "Jacob,"
we may understand God's people (compare [Isaiah 43:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/43/22);
[Isaiah 44:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/44/2), &c.), corresponding
to "the generation," as if he had said, "those who
seek Thy face are Thy chosen people."

**7-10.** The entrance of the ark,
with the attending procession, into the holy sanctuary is pictured to
us. The repetition of the terms gives emphasis.

**10. Lord of hosts**—or fully,
*Lord God of hosts* ([Hosea 12:5](../../../kjv/hosea/12/5);
[Amos 4:13](../../../kjv/amos/4/13)), describes God by a
title indicative of supremacy over all creatures, and especially the
heavenly armies ([Joshua 5:14](../../../kjv/joshua/5/14);
[1 Kings 22:19](../../../kjv/1-kings/22/19)). Whether, as some
think, the actual enlargement of the ancient gates of Jerusalem be
the basis of the figure, the effect of the whole is to impress us
with a conception of the matchless majesty of God.

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