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Who is the King of glory (24:7-10)?

In the text

The psalm answers its own question twice: "The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle" (24:8), and "The LORD of Armies is the King of glory!" (24:10). It doesn't name the gates or the city, or say when the King of glory will come in (24:7, 24:9). Another psalm has "The God of glory thunders" (Psalm 29:3). The New Testament uses the psalm's first verse (1 Corinthians 10:26), but it doesn't quote 24:7-10 or say of whom those verses speak, and these notes add nothing beyond the psalm's own answer.

The verses

“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.”
Psalm 24:7-10 · World English Bible
“The LORD’s voice is on the waters. The God of glory thunders, even the LORD on many waters.”
Psalm 29:3 · World English Bible
“for “the earth is the Lord’s, and its fullness.””
1 Corinthians 10:26 · World English Bible

From Favor's study of Psalm 24

Psalm 24: The King of glory will come in

"Who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood" (24:4) has the same two Hebrew words as "You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God" (Exodus 20:7). And that verb, lift, runs through the psalm: he "shall receive a blessing" (24:5), and the gates are told to lift up their heads for the King of glory, whom the psalm names: "The LORD of Armies" (24:10).

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