Psalms 24:3
Who may ascend to the LORD’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 has founded it on the seas, and established it on the floods.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace.
1 Chronicles 15:1David made himself houses in David’s city; and he prepared a place for God’s ark, and pitched a tent for it.
Psalms 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
Psalms 65:4Blessed is the one whom you choose and cause to come near, that he may live in your courts. We will be filled with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.
Psalms 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts amongst people, yes, amongst the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell there.
Psalms 132:13For the LORD has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
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 →