Psalm 24:7-10 “Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. Who is the King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, you gates; yes, lift them up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in. Who is this King of glory? The LORD of Armies is the King of glory! Selah.”

Some commentators think that this Psalm may have been written to celebrate the coming of the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem:

2 Samuel 6:12-15 “King David was told, ‘The LORD has blessed the house of Obed-Edom, and all that belongs to him, because of God’s ark.’ So David went and brought up God’s ark from the house of Obed-Edom into David’s city with joy. When those who bore the LORD’s ark had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf. David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was clothed in a linen ephod. So David and all the house of Israel brought up the LORD’s ark with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet.”

The imagery here is of a majestic God so awesome that the gates and doors have to be raised and lifted up just so that He can enter! He is the Lord of armies! He is strong and mighty! He is the King of Glory!

For additional worship: Glory Be to God the Father (feat. Katy Bowser)