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Psalm 24:6
This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
4He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
5He shall receive a blessing from the LORD, righteousness from the God of his salvation.
6This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
7Lift up your heads, you gates! Be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of glory will come in.
8Who is the King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, the LORD mighty in battle.
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The repeated word “seek” describes a whole generation, drawing attention to the people who share a desire for God's presence.
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1 Chronicles 16:11Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.Both passages speak of seeking God's face; Chronicles adds the call to seek his strength and to keep seeking forever.
Psalm 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, LORD.”Seeking God's face marks a generation in Psalm 24 and becomes a spoken response from the heart in Psalm 27.
Psalm 105:4Seek the LORD and his strength. Seek his face forever more.Psalm 105 commands the pursuit that Psalm 24 describes: seeking the LORD and his face.
Psalm 14:5There they were in great fear, for God is in the generation of the righteous.Both describe a generation in relation to God: those who seek him and the righteous among whom he is present.
Isaiah 51:1“Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek the LORD. Look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.Both identify people as those who seek the LORD, with righteousness named in Isaiah and in Psalm 24's surrounding lines.
Psalm 73:15If I had said, “I will speak thus”, behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.Both use “generation” for a people connected to God, described as seekers in Psalm 24 and his children in Psalm 73.
John 1:47Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and said about him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom is no deceit!”Psalm 24's surrounding lines reject deceit; Jesus describes Nathanael as an Israelite in whom there is no deceit.
Romans 4:16For this cause it is of faith, that it may be according to grace, to the end that the promise may be sure to all the offspring, not to that only which is of …Both speak of a people associated with a named ancestor: Jacob in the psalm, Abraham in Paul's account of faith.
Isaiah 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, the LORD, speak righteousness. I …Both name Jacob in connection with seeking God; Isaiah adds God's declaration that Jacob's offspring were never told to seek in vain.
Isaiah 53:10Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his …The connection is limited: Psalm 24 describes a generation seeking God, while Isaiah speaks of offspring in a passage about suffering.
1 Peter 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out …Both describe a people through their relationship to God: a generation seeking his face and a people belonging to him.
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The desire to seek God has a place among his people. Psalm 24 describes a whole generation by this shared pursuit: seeking his face.
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