Psalms 24:3
Who shall ascend the mountain of Yahweh? And who shall stand in his holy place?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, upon the seas, hath founded it, and upon the currents, doth make it firm.
Cross References
Leviticus 10:3Then said Moses unto Aaron—The very thing, that Yahweh spake, saying—In them that draw near to me, must I be hallowed, And before the faces of all the people, must I get myself honour,—And Aaron, was dumb.
1 Chronicles 15:1And he made him houses, in the city of David,—and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.
Psalms 2:6Yet, I, have installed my king,—on Zion my holy mountain.
Psalms 65:4How happy the man thou shalt choose and bring near! He shall abide in thy courts,—We shall be satisfied with, The blessing of thy house, The holiness of thy temple.
Psalms 68:18Thou hast ascended on high, Thou hast led in procession a body of captives, Thou hast received gifts consisting of men, Yea even the rebellious, That, Yah, Elohim, might settle down to rest.
Psalms 132:13For Yahweh hath chosen Zion,—He hath desired it as a dwelling for himself:
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 →