With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought; They shall enter the King’s palace.
Parallel translations
- WEB With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king’s palace.
- KJV With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king’s palace.
- BSB They are led in with joy and gladness; they enter the palace of the king.
- NASB They will be brought with joy and rejoicing; They will enter into the King’s palace.
- NLT What a joyful and enthusiastic procession as they enter the king’s palace!
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Quick answer
With gladness and rejoicing the bride and her company enter the king's palace. It matters because it pictures the joy of being brought into the King's presence.
Overview
The procession reaches its goal in joyful entry into the royal palace. Gladness marks this union with the king. So the church's destiny is to be brought with rejoicing into the everlasting presence of Christ, where joy is full and unending.
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Cross-references · 11
- Rev 7:15–17Therefore they are before the throne of God, they serve him day and night in his temple. He who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them.
- Isa 35:10The Yahweh’s ransomed ones will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy will be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing will flee away.”
- Isa 61:10I will greatly rejoice in Yahweh! My soul will be joyful in my God; for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation. He has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself with a garland, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
- Jude 1:24Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy,
- Isa 55:12–13For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands.
- Rev 3:12He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.
- Isa 60:19–20The sun will be no more your light by day; nor will the brightness of the moon give light to you, but Yahweh will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
- Isa 56:5I will give them in my house and within my walls a memorial and a name better than of sons and of daughters. I will give them an everlasting name, that will not be cut off.
- Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
- Isa 51:11Those ransomed by Yahweh will return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy shall be on their heads. They will obtain gladness and joy. Sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
- John 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
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