Psalm 24

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The King of Glory

A Psalm of David.

24 ^(A)The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof,^[a]
the world and those who dwell therein,
²for he has ^(B)founded it upon ^(C)the seas
and established it upon the rivers.

³^(D)Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?
    And who shall stand in his ^(E)holy place?
⁴^(F)He who has ^(G)clean hands and ^(H)a pure heart,
    who does not ^(I)lift up his soul to ^(J)what is false
    and does not swear deceitfully.
⁵He will receive ^(K)blessing from the Lord
    and ^(L)righteousness from ^(M)the God of his salvation.
⁶Such is ^(N)the generation of those who seek him,
    who ^(O)seek the face of the God of Jacob.^[b] Selah

⁷^(P)Lift up your heads, O gates!
    And be lifted up, O ancient doors,
    that ^(Q)the King of glory may come in.
⁸Who is this King of glory?
    The Lord, strong and mighty,
    the Lord, ^(R)mighty in battle!
⁹Lift up your heads, O gates!
    And lift them up, O ancient doors,
    that the King of glory may come in.
¹⁰Who is this King of glory?
    ^(S)The Lord of hosts,
    he is the King of glory! Selah

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Psalm 24:1 Or and all that fills it
Psalm 24:6 Septuagint, Syriac, and two Hebrew manuscripts; Masoretic Text who seek your face, Jacob

Zechariah 9:9-12

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The Coming King of Zion

⁹^(A)Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
    Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
^(B)Behold, ^(C)your king is coming to you;
    righteous and having salvation is he,
^(D)humble and mounted on a donkey,
    on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
¹⁰^(E)I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
    and ^(F)the war horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow shall be cut off,
    and ^(G)he shall speak peace to the nations;
^(H)his rule shall be from sea to sea,
    and from ^(I)the River^[a] to the ends of the earth.
¹¹As for you also, because of ^(J)the blood of my covenant with you,
    ^(K)I will set your prisoners free from ^(L)the waterless pit.
¹²Return to your stronghold, O ^(M)prisoners of hope;
    today I declare that ^(N)I will restore to you double.

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Zechariah 9:10 That is, the Euphrates

Zechariah 12:9-13

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⁹^(A)And on that day ^(B)I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

Him Whom They Have Pierced

¹⁰“And ^(C)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and ^(D)pleas for mercy, so that, ^(E)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, ^(F)they shall mourn for him, ^(G)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn. ¹¹^(H)On that day ^(I)the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great ^(J)as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo. ¹²The land shall mourn, ^(K)each family^[a] by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of ^(L)Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves; ¹³the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of ^(M)the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;

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Zechariah 12:12 Or clan; throughout verses 12–14

1 Timothy 6:12-16

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¹²^(A)Fight the good fight of the faith. ^(B)Take hold of the eternal life ^(C)to which you were called and about which you made ^(D)the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. ¹³^(E)I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, ^(F)who in his testimony before^[a] Pontius Pilate made ^(G)the good confession, ¹⁴to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until ^(H)the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁵which he will display ^(I)at the proper time—he who is ^(J)the blessed and only Sovereign, ^(K)the King of kings and Lord of lords, ¹⁶^(L)who alone has immortality, ^(M)who dwells in ^(N)unapproachable light, ^(O)whom no one has ever seen or can see. To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.

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1 Timothy 6:13 Or in the time of

Matthew 21:12-17

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Jesus Cleanses the Temple

¹²^(A)And Jesus entered the temple^[a] and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of ^(B)the money-changers and the seats of those who sold ^(C)pigeons. ¹³He said to them, “It is written, ^(D)‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but ^(E)you make it a den of robbers.”

¹⁴^(F)And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them. ¹⁵^(G)But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, ^(H)“Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were indignant, ¹⁶and they said to him, “Do you hear what these are saying?” And Jesus said to them, “Yes; ^(I)have you never read,