Psalms 15:1

David asks who is fit to dwell in God's presence on his holy hill. It matters because it raises the question of what kind of person may enjoy fellowship with a holy God.

Cross-references · 20

• Ps 24:3–5Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
• Ps 84:4Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.
• Ps 61:4I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah.
• Ps 92:13Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
• Ps 23:6Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
• Rev 21:23–24And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.
• Ps 43:3–4O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
• Rev 21:3–4And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
• Heb 12:22But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
• John 17:24Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
• John 3:3–5Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
• Ps 27:4–6One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.
• Ps 2:6Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.
• Ps 1:1–4Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
• Ps 3:4I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah.
• Ps 87:1–3His foundation is in the holy mountains.
• John 14:3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.
• Rev 7:14–17And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.
• Rev 14:1And I looked, and, lo, a Lamb stood on the mount Sion, and with him an hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father’s name written in their foreheads.
• Ps 21:3–5For thou preventest him with the blessings of goodness: thou settest a crown of pure gold on his head.

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