King James Version
Psalms 24:5 in the King James Version says “He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.”
Psalms 24:5 · KJV
Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He: Heb. The clean of hands
He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah. O Jacob: or, O God of Jacob
Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“He shall receive”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“from the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“and righteousness”
H6666rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
“from the God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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