Psalms 24:1

_THE EARTH IS THE LORD'S, AND THE FULNESS THEREOF; THE WORLD, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN._ This psalm refers primarily to David's bringing the ark up to Zion (2 Samuel 6:1). This is the oldest of the Introit psalms (i:e., sung at the Temple entrance). God's absolute ownership of the world (as in Psalms 15:1), introduces the main subject. Zion's ancient doors typify heaven's everlasting doors (Psalms 24:1). God's ownership of the world, based on His creation of it (Psalms 24:1); who alone may ascend and dwell with so holy a God in His sanctuary?-The pure alone ...

1._The earth is Jehovah’s. _We will find in many other places the children of Abraham compared with all the rest of mankind, that the free goodness of God, in selecting them from all other nations, and in embracing them with his favor, may shine forth the more conspicuously. The object of the beginning of the psalm is to show that the Jews had nothing of themselves which could entitle them to approach nearer or more familiarly to God than the Gentiles. As God by his providence preserves the world, the power of his government is alike extended to all, so that he ought to be worshipped by all, even as he also shows to all men, without exception, the fatherly care he has about them. But since he preferred the Jews to all other nations, it was indispensably necessary that there should be some sacred bond of connection between him and them, which might distinguish them from the heathen nation...

1-6 We ourselves are not our own; our bodies, our souls, are not. Even those of the children of men are God's, who know him not, nor own their relation to him. A soul that knows and considers its own nature, and that it must live for ever, when it has viewed the earth and the fulness thereof, will sit down unsatisfied. It will think of ascending toward God, and will ask, What shall I do, that I may abide in that happy, holy place, where he makes his people holy and happy? We make nothing of religion, if we do not make heart-work of it. We can only be cleansed from our sins, and renewed unto holiness, by the blood of Christ and the washing of the Holy Ghost. Thus we become his people; thus we receive blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of our salvation. God's peculiar people shall be made truly and for ever happy. Where God gives righteousness, he designs salvation. Th...

PSALM XXIV _The Lord is Sovereign Ruler of the universe_, 1, 2. _The great question, Who is fit to minister to the Lord in his_ _own temple_? 3-6. _The glory of God in his entrance into his temple_, 7-10. NOTES ON PSALM XXIV It is probable that this Psalm was composed on occasion of bringing the ark from the house of Obed-edom to Mount Sion, and the questions may respect the fitness of the persons who were to minister before this ark: the last verses may refer to the opening of the city gates in order to admit it. As many of the expressions here are nearly the same with those in Psalms 15, I

THE EARTH IS THE LORD’S - The whole world belongs to God. He is the Creator of the earth, and therefore, its Proprietor; or, in other words, “the property vests in him.” It belongs to Him in a sense somewhat similar to our right of property in anything that is the production of our hands, or of our labor or skill. We claim that as our own. We feel that we have a right to use it, or to dispose of it, as we choose. No other person has a right to take it from us, or to dictate to us how we shall employ it. Thus, God, in the highest possible sense, has a right to the earth, and to all which it produces, as being all of it the creation of His hands, and the fruit of His culture and skill. He has a right to dispose of it as He pleases; by fire, or flood, or tempest; and He has an equal right to direct man in what way He shall employ that portion of the productions of the earth which may be ent...

EXPOSITION AT first sight this psalm seems to be composed of two quite separate fragments (Psalms 24:1 and Psalms 24:7); whence Ewald has laid it down that, in their origin, the two parts were wholly separate, and that the union took place subsequently. But a careful consideration reveals points of unity which favour the view that the connection was intended from the first, and is essential and congenital. "The glory of the approaching Lord is, in both parts of the psalm, the fundamental idea" (Hengstenberg). Both parts speak of an ascent into the holy hill of Zion, the first manifestly (Psalms 24:3), the second by implication ...

THE EARTH [IS] THE LORD'S, AND THE FULNESS THEREOF,.... The whole universe, all the terraqueous globe, both land and water, and the circumambient air, and all that is therein; the fishes of the sea, the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, all plants and vegetables that spring out of the earth, and metals and minerals in the bowels of it; all which are the riches of the Lord the earth is full of, Psalms 104:24; see Psalms 50:10; THE WORLD, AND THEY THAT DWELL THEREIN; the habitable world, and the dwellers on it, rational and irrational. These words may be interpreted of Christ, who is Lord of all; he made the world, and has a right and claim to all things in it; for the same person is here spoken of as in the preceding psalm, under the character of a shepherd; and t

Psalms 24:1. _The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof,_ And therefore it is also the believer's. The real fullness of the earth belongs to the Christian. «The meek shall inherit the earth.» Psalms 24:1. _The world, and they that dwell there in. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods._ So, child of God, you are in your Father's house even while you are down here on earth. Still, that question in the next verse is very suggestive. Albeit that the earth is the Lord's, yet we do not want to stop in it for ever. Psalms 24:3. _Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord?_ This is the portion of the Lord's people to asce

Psalms 24 The Chief Shepherd, the King of Glory _ 1. Who shall dwell with Him when He comes? (Psalms 24:1)_ 2. The glorious manifestation of the King (Psalms 24:7) Psalms 24:1. This Psalm may have been composed and used on the occasion of the removal of the ark from the house of Obed-Edom, to the city of David on Mount Zion (2 Samuel 6:1). It is a millennial Psalm and describes how the Lord will enter His glorious dwelling place on Mount Zion when He appears in power and in glory. When the King comes back He will choose Zion for His

XXIV. PSALMS 24:1 f. Yahweh the Creator. PSALMS 24:2. For the water under the earth, _cf._ Exodus 20:4. There was sea below the earth, another on a level with the earth, and a third ocean above the firmament (Genesis 16 f.*). PSALMS 24:3. The moral qualities required of the worshippers in the Temple (_cf._ Psalms 15). PSALMS 24:7. Once more Yahweh in His glory enters the Temple. The Ps. may have been composed for the feast of the Encæ nia (_cf._...