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Psalms 24:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory. Selah.
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Quick Meaning
Psalm 24:10: The line “Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he…” reaches Selah inside “Creator, holy hill, and the entering king of glory,” marking an ancient pause of uncertain performance.
The earth is already the LORD's
This verse is one part of that explanation in Psalms 24:1–10. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Psalms 24:1–10
Read Psalms 24:10 with 24:1–10. Read alone, “Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is…” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 24:1–10, the communal voice carries the movement “Creator, holy hill, and the entering king of glory” as part of “Creator, holy hill, and the entering king of glory.” Its entrance-liturgy form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Psalms 24:1–10 opens Psalm 24 with “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein” and establishes the communal voice and “Creator, holy hill, and the entering king of glory” movement before later lines develop or answer it. Within that relationship, Psalm 24:10 carries “Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King…” into the liturgical marker Selah, creating a pause whose exact performance remains uncertain.
What Remains True
The verse's role is specific—Psalm 24:10 carries “Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King…” into the liturgical marker Selah, creating a pause whose exact performance remains uncertain. Within that role, Human rule is answerable to the LORD and is measured by justice, especially protection of poor and vulnerable people, rather than by power or sacred slogans. The local movement is “Creator, holy hill, and the entering king of glory.” The unit's reviewed limit is: Temple-entry language joins ethics and worship; it cannot be used to police belonging by race, class, disability, or coercive purity systems.
How It Can Shape Life
- Start with the line's work inside “Creator, holy hill, and the entering king of glory”—Psalm 24:10 carries “Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King…” into the liturgical marker Selah, creating a pause whose exact performance remains uncertain. Then let “Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is…” question concentrated power: examine whether actual policies protect poor people and restrain violence rather than baptizing authority.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Psalms 24:1–10 — Creator, holy hill, and the entering king of glorySources used for this Verse Lens
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 24:1–10, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 24:1–10
Open the fixed Hebrew Psalms file ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible Notes: Psalms 1-150
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, current official online edition
Supports: Verse-level controls for poetic syntax, imagery, older KJV language, textual issues, headings, and alternatives in Psalms 24:1–10.
Exact location: Official NET Bible Psalm 24 HTML, translator, textual, and study notes attached to Psalms 24:1–10
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