1 Kings 6:2

6:2 The temple King Solomon built for the Lord was 90 feet ¹  long, 30 feet ²  wide, and 45 feet ³  high.

Zechariah 6:12-13

6:12 Then say to him, ‘The Lord who rules over all says, “Look – here is the man whose name is Branch, ⁴  who will sprout up from his place and build the temple of the Lord. 6:13 Indeed, he will build the temple of the Lord, and he will be clothed in splendor, sitting as king on his throne. Moreover, there will be a priest ⁵  with him on his throne and they will see eye to eye on everything.

Ephesians 2:20-22

2:20 because you have been built ⁶  on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, ⁷  with Christ Jesus himself as ⁸  the cornerstone. ⁹  2:21 In him ¹⁰  the whole building, ¹¹  being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, 2:22 in whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

Ephesians 2:1

New Life Individually

2:1 And although you were ¹²  dead ¹³  in your transgressions and sins,

Ephesians 2:5

2:5 even though we were dead in transgressions, made us alive together with Christ – by grace you are saved! ¹⁴  –

Revelation 3:12

3:12 The one who conquers ¹⁵  I will make ¹⁶  a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will never depart from it. I ¹⁷  will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God (the new Jerusalem that comes down out of heaven from my God), ¹⁸  and my new name as well.

Revelation 11:1-2

The Fate of the Two Witnesses

11:1 Then ¹⁹  a measuring rod ²⁰  like a staff was given to me, and I was told, ²¹  “Get up and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and the ones who worship there. 11:2 But ²²  do not measure the outer courtyard ²³  of the temple; leave it out, ²⁴  because it has been given to the Gentiles, ²⁵  and they will trample on the holy city ²⁶  for forty-two months.

Revelation 21:3

21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying: “Look! The residence ²⁷  of God is among human beings. ²⁸  He ²⁹  will live among them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them. ³⁰ 

Revelation 21:15

21:15 The angel ³¹  who spoke to me had a golden measuring rod with which to measure the city and its foundation stones and wall.

[6:2]  ¹ tn Heb “sixty cubits.” A cubit was a unit of measure roughly equivalent to 18 inches or 45 cm. Measurements in vv. 2-10 have been converted to feet in the translation for clarity.

[6:2]  ² tn Heb “twenty cubits.”

[6:2]  ³ tn Heb “thirty cubits.”

[6:12]  ⁴ tn The epithet “Branch” (צֶמַח, tsemakh) derives from the verb used here (יִצְמָח, yitsmakh, “will sprout up”) to describe the rise of the Messiah, already referred to in this manner in Zech 3:8 (cf. Isa 11:1; 53:2; Jer 33:15). In the immediate context this refers to Zerubbabel, but the ultimate referent is Jesus (cf. John 19:5).

[6:13]  ⁵ sn The priest here in the immediate context is Joshua but the fuller and more distant allusion is to the Messiah, a ruling priest. The notion of the ruler as a priest-king was already apparent in David and his successors (Pss 2:2, 6-8; 110:2, 4), and it finds mature expression in David’s greater Son, Jesus Christ, who will combine both offices in his kingship (Heb 5:1-10; 7:1-25).

[2:20]  ⁶ tn Grk “having been built.”

[2:20]  ⁷ sn Apostles and prophets. Because the prophets appear after the mention of the apostles and because they are linked together in 3:5 as recipients of revelation about the church, they are to be regarded not as Old Testament prophets, but as New Testament prophets.

[2:20]  ⁸ tn Grk “while Christ Jesus himself is” or “Christ Jesus himself being.”

[2:20]  ⁹ tn Or perhaps “capstone” (NAB). The meaning of ἀκρογωνιαῖος (akrogwniaio") is greatly debated. The meaning “capstone” is proposed by J. Jeremias (TDNT 1:792), but the most important text for this meaning (T. Sol. 22:7-23:4) is late and possibly not even an appropriate parallel. The only place ἀκρογωνιαῖος is used in the LXX is Isa 28:16, and there it clearly refers to a cornerstone that is part of a foundation. Furthermore, the imagery in this context has the building growing off the cornerstone upward, whereas if Christ were the capstone, he would not assume his position until the building was finished, which vv. 21-22 argue against.

[2:21]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “in whom” (v. 21 is a relative clause, subordinate to v. 20).

[2:21]  ¹¹ tc Although several important witnesses (א¹ A C P 6 81 326 1739^c 1881) have πᾶσα ἡ οἰκοδομή (pasa Jh oikodomh), instead of πᾶσα οἰκοδομή (the reading of א* B D F G Ψ 33 1739* Ï), the article is almost surely a scribal addition intended to clarify the meaning of the text, for with the article the meaning is unambiguously “the whole building.”

[2:1]  ¹² tn The adverbial participle “being” (ὄντας, ontas) is taken concessively.

[2:1]  ¹³ sn Chapter 2 starts off with a participle, although you were dead, that is left dangling. The syntax in Greek for vv. 1-3 constitutes one incomplete sentence, though it seems to have been done intentionally. The dangling participle leaves the readers in suspense while they wait for the solution (in v. 4) to their spiritual dilemma.

[2:5]  ¹⁴ tn Or “by grace you have been saved.” The perfect tense in Greek connotes both completed action (“you have been saved”) and continuing results (“you are saved”).

[3:12]  ¹⁵ tn Or “who is victorious”; traditionally, “who overcomes.”

[3:12]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “I will make him,” but the pronoun (αὐτόν, auton, “him”) is redundant in contemporary English and has not been translated here.

[3:12]  ¹⁷ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[3:12]  ¹⁸ sn This description of the city of my God is parenthetical, explaining further the previous phrase and interrupting the list of “new names” given here.

[11:1]  ¹⁹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[11:1]  ²⁰ tn Grk “a reed” (but these were used for measuring). Cf. Ezek 40:3ff.

[11:1]  ²¹ tn Grk “saying.”

[11:2]  ²² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[11:2]  ²³ tn On the term αὐλήν (aulhn) BDAG 150 s.v. αὐλή 1 states, “(outer) court of the temple…Rv 11:2.”

[11:2]  ²⁴ tn The precise meaning of the phrase ἔκβαλε ἔξωθεν (ekbale exwqen) is difficult to determine.

[11:2]  ²⁵ tn Or “to the nations” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).

[11:2]  ²⁶ sn The holy city appears to be a reference to Jerusalem. See also Luke 21:24.

[21:3]  ²⁷ tn Or “dwelling place”; traditionally, “tabernacle”; literally “tent.”

[21:3]  ²⁸ tn Or “people”; Grk “men” (ἀνθρώπων, anqrwpwn), a generic use of the term. In the translation “human beings” was used here because “people” occurs later in the verse and translates a different Greek word (λαοί, laoi).

[21:3]  ²⁹ tn Grk “men, and he.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[21:3]  ³⁰ tc ‡ Most mss (א Ï^K) do not add the words “[as] their God” (αὐτῶν θεός, autwn qeos) after “he will be with them.” The mss with these words include A 2030 2050 2329 al. The Andreas group (Ï^A) also has the words, but in a different arrangement with the preceding (ἔσται μετ᾿ αὐτῶν θεὸς αὐτῶν, estai met’ autwn qeo" autwn). Not only do the words float, but scribes may have been motivated to make a connection here more directly with Isa 7:14; 8:8; Jer 24:7; 31:33; Zech 8:8. In light of sufficient external evidence as well as the possibility that the longer reading is theologically motivated, the shorter reading is preferred. NA²⁷ places the words in brackets, indicating doubts as to their authenticity.

[21:15]  ³¹ tn Grk “the one”; the referent (the angel of v. 9) has been specified in the translation for clarity.