| Geneva Study Bible Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? Wesley's Notes 24:3 The hill - Zion or Moriah, the place of God's sanctuary and special presence. Having asserted God's dominion over all mankind, he now proposes an important question, by whom God will be served, and his blessing enjoyed? Stand - To minister before him. Standing is the posture of ministers or servants. Who shall serve God, with God's acceptation. Holy place - In the place which he hath sanctified for his service. Scofield Reference Notes [1] Who shall The order is: (1) the declaration of title, "the earth is the Lord's" Ps 24:1,2. (2) Who shall rule the earth? (Ps 24:3-6). It is a question of worthiness, and no one is worthy but the Lamb. Cf. Dan 7:13,14 Rev 5:3-10 Mt 25:31. (3) The King of glory takes the throne of earth Ps 24:7-10. See Psa 40., next in order of the Messianic Psalms. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 3, 4. The form of a question gives vivacity. Hands, tongue, and heart are organs of action, speech, and feeling, which compose character. hill of the Lord-(compare Ps 2:6, &c.). His Church-the true or invisible, as typified by the earthly sanctuary. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 24:1-6 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. Those that are made meet for heaven, shall be brought safe to heaven, and will find what they have been seeking. | 
