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Psalm 24:1 KJV
Psalms · chapter 24 · verse 1
A Psalm of David.The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.Psalm 24:1 · King James Version
What Psalm 24:1 means
The claim covers three things: the planet, everything in it, and the people. Nothing is left over to own outright. David wrote it as a processional psalm, and the verses just after ask who is fit to climb God's hill — which lands differently once the ground is admitted to be his.
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Psalm 24:1 in context
1The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.
2For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
3Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
Commentary
Cross references
- Psalms 89:11
- 1 Corinthians 10:26
- 1 Chronicles 29:11
- Job 41:11
- Deuteronomy 10:14
- Exodus 9:29
- Exodus 19:5
- Psalms 50:12
Key words (Strong's)
- fulnessmᵉlôʼfulnessH4393 →
- LORD'SYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- earthʼeretsthe earthH776 →
- worldtêbêlthe earthH8398 →
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Here is, I. God's absolute propriety in this part of the creation where our lot is cast, Psa 24:1. We are not to think that the heavens, even the heavens only, are the Lord's, and the numerous and bright inhabitants of the upper world, and that this earth, being so small and inconsiderable a part of the creation, and…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-2