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THE MESSAGE

Psalms 24:3

Who can climb Mount God ? Who can scale the holy north-face? Only the clean-handed, only the pure-hearted; Men who won't cheat, women who won't seduce.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Church;   God;   Heaven;   Holiness;   Integrity;   Penitent;   Purity;   Righteous;   Righteousness;   Seekers;   Worship;   Scofield Reference Index - Kingdom of Heaven;   Thompson Chain Reference - Access to God;   Admission, Exclusion;   Innocence-Guilt;   Prayer;   Purity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Access to God;   Holiness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Psalms, the Book of;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - God, Names of;   Hypocrisy;   Worship;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Hand;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Hill;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - English Versions;   Ethics;   Greek Versions of Ot;   Hope;   Psalms;   Sanctification, Sanctify;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Old Testament (Ii. Christ as Student and Interpreter of).;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Ascension;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - David;   Psalms the book of;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Ascend;   Hill;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ark of the Covenant;   Hill;   Holiness;   Jehovah-Jireh;   King, Christ as;   Poetry, Hebrew;   Psalms, Book of;   Purity;   Slander;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 15;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Who may ascend the mountain of the Lord?Who may stand in his holy place?
Hebrew Names Version
Who may ascend to the LORD's hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
King James Version
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord ? or who shall stand in his holy place?
English Standard Version
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord ? And who shall stand in his holy place?
New Century Version
Who may go up on the mountain of the Lord ? Who may stand in his holy Temple?
New English Translation
Who is allowed to ascend the mountain of the Lord ? Who may go up to his holy dwelling place?
Amplified Bible
Who may ascend onto the mountain of the LORD? And who may stand in His holy place?
New American Standard Bible
Who may ascend onto the hill of the LORD? And who may stand in His holy place?
World English Bible
Who may ascend to Yahweh's hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Who shall ascende into the mountaine of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place?
Legacy Standard Bible
Who may ascend into the mountain of Yahweh?And who may rise in His holy place?
Berean Standard Bible
Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place?
Contemporary English Version
Who may climb the Lord 's hill or stand in his holy temple?
Complete Jewish Bible
Who may go up to the mountain of Adonai ? Who can stand in his holy place?
Darby Translation
Who shall ascend into the mount of Jehovah? and who shall stand in his holy place?
Easy-to-Read Version
Who can go up on the Lord 's mountain? Who can stand in his holy Temple?
George Lamsa Translation
Who shall ascend into the mountain of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
Good News Translation
Who has the right to go up the Lord 's hill? Who may enter his holy Temple?
Lexham English Bible
Who may ascend the mountain of Yahweh? And who may stand in his holy place?
Literal Translation
Who shall go up into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall rise in His holy place?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Who shal go vp in to the hill off the LORDE? Or, who shal remayne in his holy place?
American Standard Version
Who shall ascend into the hill of Jehovah? And who shall stand in his holy place?
Bible in Basic English
Who may go up into the hill of the Lord? and who may come into his holy place?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Who shall ascend into the mountain of the LORD? and who shall stand in His holy place?
King James Version (1611)
Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? and who shall stand in his holy place?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Who shal ascende into the hyll of God? or who shall ryse vp in his holy place?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Who shall go up to the mountain of the Lord, and who shall stand in his holy place?
English Revised Version
Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? and who shall stand in his holy place?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Who schal stie in to the hil of the Lord; ethir who schal stonde in the hooli place of hym?
Update Bible Version
Who shall ascend into the hill of Yahweh? And who shall stand in his holy place?
Webster's Bible Translation
Who shall ascend upon the hill of the LORD? and who shall stand in his holy place?
New King James Version
Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place?
New Living Translation
Who may climb the mountain of the Lord ? Who may stand in his holy place?
New Life Bible
Who may go up the mountain of the Lord? And who may stand in His holy place?
New Revised Standard
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord ? And who shall stand in his holy place?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Who shall ascend the mountain of Yahweh? And who shall stand in his holy place?
Douay-Rheims Bible
(23-3) Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord: or who shall stand in his holy place?
Revised Standard Version
Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? And who shall stand in his holy place?
Young's Literal Translation
Who goeth up into the hill of Jehovah? And who riseth up in His holy place?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Who may ascend into the hill of the Lord ? And who may stand in His holy place?

Contextual Overview

3Who can climb Mount God ? Who can scale the holy north-face? Only the clean-handed, only the pure-hearted; Men who won't cheat, women who won't seduce. 5 God is at their side; with God 's help they make it. This, Jacob, is what happens to God-seekers, God-questers.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who: Psalms 15:1, Psalms 68:18, John 13:36, John 20:17, Ephesians 4:8-10

the hill: Psalms 68:15, Psalms 68:16, Psalms 78:68, Psalms 78:69, Psalms 132:13, Psalms 132:14, 2 Samuel 6:12-17, 1 Chronicles 15:1, 1 Chronicles 15:25-28, Hebrews 12:22-24

stand: Leviticus 10:3, Malachi 3:1, Hebrews 12:28

Reciprocal: Genesis 4:8 - Cain rose Psalms 1:5 - shall Psalms 118:20 - This gate Psalms 119:166 - and done Revelation 11:12 - Come

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
This was back in the days (and also later) when there were giants in the land. The giants came from the union of the sons of God and the daughters of men. These were the mighty men of ancient lore, the famous ones.
Genesis 14:22
But Abram told the king of Sodom, "I swear to God , The High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, this solemn oath, that I'll take nothing from you, not so much as a thread or a shoestring. I'm not going to have you go around saying, ‘I made Abram rich.' Nothing for me other than what the young men ate and the share of the men who went with me, Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre; they're to get their share of the plunder."
Genesis 24:15
It so happened that the words were barely out of his mouth when Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel whose mother was Milcah the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with a water jug on her shoulder. The girl was stunningly beautiful, a pure virgin. She went down to the spring, filled her jug, and came back up. The servant ran to meet her and said, "Please, can I have a sip of water from your jug?"
Genesis 24:28
And the girl was off and running, telling everyone in her mother's house what had happened.
Genesis 24:34
The servant said, "I'm the servant of Abraham. God has blessed my master—he's a great man; God has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, servants and maidservants, camels and donkeys. And then to top it off, Sarah, my master's wife, gave him a son in her old age and he has passed everything on to his son. My master made me promise, ‘Don't get a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I live. No, go to my father's home, back to my family, and get a wife for my son there.' I said to my master, ‘But what if the woman won't come with me?' He said, ‘ God before whom I've walked faithfully will send his angel with you and he'll make things work out so that you'll bring back a wife for my son from my family, from the house of my father. Then you'll be free from the oath. If you go to my family and they won't give her to you, you will also be free from the oath.'
Genesis 50:25
Then Joseph made the sons of Israel promise under oath, "When God makes his visitation, make sure you take my bones with you as you leave here."
Exodus 20:7
No using the name of God, your God, in curses or silly banter; God won't put up with the irreverent use of his name.
Exodus 23:13
"Listen carefully to everything I tell you. Don't pay attention to other gods—don't so much as mention their names.
Leviticus 19:12
"Don't swear falsely using my name, violating the name of your God. I am God .
Deuteronomy 6:13
Deeply respect God , your God. Serve and worship him exclusively. Back up your promises with his name only. Don't fool around with other gods, the gods of your neighbors, because God , your God, who is alive among you is a jealous God. Don't provoke him, igniting his hot anger that would burn you right off the face of the Earth. Don't push God , your God, to the wall as you did that day at Massah, the Testing-Place. Carefully keep the commands of God , your God, all the requirements and regulations he gave you. Do what is right; do what is good in God 's sight so you'll live a good life and be able to march in and take this pleasant land that God so solemnly promised through your ancestors, throwing out your enemies left and right—exactly as God said.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?.... Though the Lord has a claim in general to the whole world, and all its fulness; yet there is a particular part of it, or spot in it, which is his special and peculiar property, and that is his church and people; for though some reference may be had, in this passage, to Mount Moriah, and the hill of Zion, on which the temple was afterwards built, and is called the hill of the Lord, where he desired to dwell, Psalms 68:15; yet the church is mystically intended, and is so called on account of its visibility, through a profession of faith in Christ, and for its immovableness, being built on him;

and who shall stand in his holy place? the same with the hill of the Lord; the temple being to be built upon it, where the Lord took up his residence, and was worshipped, and holiness becomes the house of God for evermore: the import of these questions is, who is a proper person to be an inhabitant of Zion, or a member of a Gospel church? and the answer to them is in Psalms 24:4, in which is a description much like that which is given of one hundred forty and four thousand seen with the Lamb on Mount Zion, Revelation 14:1; compare with this verse.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? - Mount Zion; called the hill of the Lord, because it was the place designated for His worship, or the place of His abode. See the notes at Psalms 15:1. The idea here is, “Who shall ascend there with a view of abiding there? Who is worthy to dwell there?” The question is equivalent to asking, What constitutes true religion? What is required for the acceptable worship of God? What will prepare a person for heaven?

Or who shall stand in his holy place? - In the tabernacle, or in the place where he is worshipped. Compare the notes at Psalms 1:5. Who is worthy to stand before God? Who has the qualifications requisite to constitute the evidence of his friendship?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 24:3. Who shall ascend — Who is sufficiently holy to wait in his temple? Who is fit to minister in the holy place?


 
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