Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.
⛓ Read Psalm 24 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Who shall ascend the hill of the LORD? ... He who has clean hands and a pure heart' — direct source for 'blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.'
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
The requirement of 'clean hands and a pure heart' to ascend the LORD's hill informs Paul's insistence on 'holy hands without anger and doubting.' The cultic standard of pure hands for approaching God shapes the qualification on prayer. The moral-ritual purity link is the point of contact.
Medium confidenceThe temple-ascent question 'who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart' parallels Paul's pairing of bodily and spiritual cleansing as prerequisite for holiness before God. Given the preceding temple imagery (6:16), the figural fit is real but the volume is faint and the language general. Marked low and contested because purity-of-heart language is widespread.
Low confidenceThe question 'what shall I do to inherit eternal life' and the demand for clean conduct loosely recall the entrance-liturgy question 'Who shall ascend?' answered by moral purity. Thematic and faint. Low confidence.
Low confidence