¹³ So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.

⁵ And David said, Solomon my son is young and untested, and the house which is to be put up for the Lord is to be very great, a thing of wonder and glory through all countries; so I will make ready what is needed for it. So David got ready a great store of material before his death.

⁷ But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;

³ Who is there still among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing?

¹ And when he was going out of the Temple, one of his disciples said to him, Master, see, what stones and what buildings!

² And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? there is not one stone here resting on another which will not be overturned.