Psalms 24:3
Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place?
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
In Context
2For he founded it on the seas, and on the floods he sustains it.
Cross References
Psalms 2:6“This my king is installed by me, on Zion my holy mountain.”
Psalms 65:4Happy the person who you choose to live beside you in your courts. O may we be filled with the joys of your house, of your holy temple.
Psalms 68:18You did mount the height with trains of your captives, and gifts that you had received from the people. The rebels shall live with the Lord God.
Psalms 132:13For the choice of the Lord is Zion; she is the home of his heart.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 24:2-3
God's Absolute Propriety. 1 The earth is the Lord 's, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. 2 For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Here is, I. God's absolute propriety in this part of the creation where our lot is cast, v. 1 . We are not to think that the heavens, even the heavens only, are the Lord's, and the numerous and bright inhabitants of the upper world, and that this earth, being so small and inconsiderable a part of the creation, and at such… Read the whole commentary →