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 may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?
• Ps 84:4Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They are always praising you. Selah.
• Ps 61:4I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.
• Ps 92:13They are planted in Yahweh’s house. They will flourish in our God’s courts.
• Ps 23:6Surely goodness and loving kindness shall follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in Yahweh’s house forever.
• Rev 21:23–24The city has no need for the sun, neither of the moon, to shine, for the very glory of God illuminated it, and its lamp is the Lamb.
• Ps 43:3–4Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.
• Rev 21:3–4I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
• Heb 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
• John 17:24Father, I desire that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am, that they may see my glory, which you have given me, for you loved me before the foundation of the world.
• John 3:3–5Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see God’s Kingdom.”
• Ps 27:4–6One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
• Ps 2:6“Yet I have set my King on my holy hill of Zion.”
• Ps 1:1–4Blessed is the man who doesn’t walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand on the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers;
• Ps 3:4I cry to Yahweh with my voice, and he answers me out of his holy hill. Selah.
• Ps 87:1–3A Psalm by the sons of Korah; a Song. His foundation is in the holy mountains.
• John 14:3If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
• Rev 7:14–17I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great tribulation. They washed their robes, and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.
• Rev 14:1I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him a number, one hundred forty-four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.
• Ps 21:3–5For you meet him with the blessings of goodness. You set a crown of fine gold on his head.

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