1 Tawarikh 22:5

22:5 David said, “My son Solomon is just an inexperienced young man, ¹  and the temple to be built for the Lord must be especially magnificent so it will become famous and be considered splendid by all the nations. ²  Therefore I will make preparations for its construction.” So David made extensive preparations before he died.

Hagai 2:3

2:3 ‘Who among you survivors saw the former splendor of this temple? ³  How does it look to you now? Isn’t it nothing by comparison?

Markus 13:1-2

The Destruction of the Temple

13:1 Now ⁴  as Jesus ⁵  was going out of the temple courts, one of his disciples said to him, “Teacher, look at these tremendous stones and buildings!” ⁶  13:2 Jesus said to him, “Do you see these great buildings? Not one stone will be left on another. ⁷  All will be torn down!” ⁸ 

[22:5]  ¹ tn Heb “a young man and tender.”

[22:5]  ² tn Heb “and the house to build to make exceedingly great for a name and for splendor for all the lands.”

[2:3]  ³ tn Heb “this house in its earlier splendor”; NAB, NIV, NRSV “in its former glory.”

[2:3]  sn Solomon’s temple was demolished in 586 b.c., 66 years prior to Haggai’s time. There surely would have been some older people who remembered the former splendor of that magnificent structure and who lamented the contrast to the small, unimpressive temple they were building (see Ezra 3:8-13).

[13:1]  ⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[13:1]  ⁵ tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[13:1]  ⁶ sn The Jerusalem temple was widely admired around the world. See Josephus, Ant. 15.11 [15.380-425]; J. W. 5.5 [5.184-227] and Tacitus, History 5.8, who called it “immensely opulent.” Josephus compared it to a beautiful snowcapped mountain.

[13:2]  ⁷ sn With the statement not one stone will be left on another Jesus predicted the total destruction of the temple, something that did occur in a.d. 70.

[13:2]  ⁸ tn Grk “not one stone will be left here on another which will not be thrown down.”