¹ tn Here δέ (de) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of Jesus’ comments about the temple’s future destruction.

² sn Because the phrase these things is plural, more than the temple’s destruction is in view. The question may presuppose that such a catastrophe signals the end.

³ sn The temple tax refers to the half-shekel tax paid annually by male Jews to support the temple (Exod 30:13-16).

⁴ tn Heb “Will I ever see your holy temple again?” The rhetorical question expresses denial: Jonah despaired of ever seeing the temple again.

² tn Heb “from his temple.” Verse 10, which pictures God descending from the sky, indicates that the heavenly temple is in view, not the earthly one.

² tn Heb “temple of sacrifice.” This means the Lord designated the temple as the place for making sacrifices, and this has been clarified in the translation.

¹ tn Heb “all the temple he plated with gold until all the temple was finished; and the whole altar which was in the inner sanctuary he plated with gold.”

² tn Heb “from his temple.” Verse 10, which pictures God descending from the sky, indicates that the heavenly, not earthly, temple is in view.

¹ tn Grk “the temple.” See the note on the same phrase in the preceding verse.

¹ sn See the note on the phrase the temple courts in the previous verse.

² tn Or “holy place”; Grk “our place” (a reference to the temple in Jerusalem).

² tn Grk “Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying.”

³ tn Or “temple.” See the note on the phrase “the holy place” in v. 9.

⁴ tn Or “temple.” See the note on the phrase “the holy place” in v. 9.

¹ tn Heb “and build the house” (so NIV, NRSV), with “house” referring specifically to the temple here.

³ sn Here the sanctuary is a reference to the temple of God in Jerusalem.

¹ sn Tobiah, an Ammonite (Neh 13:8), was dismissed from the temple.

³ sn Earlier Ezekiel had observed God leaving the temple to the east (11:23).

¹ sn My treasured place probably refers to the temple (however, cf. NLT’s “my treasured land”).

³ tn Heb “place.” But this might be misunderstood to refer to the temple.