importance for our theme is that it inaugurated a tradition of speculation about an ideal temple and city. Other prophets of the exilic period also spoke of Jerusalem in utopian terms. The prophet we know as Second Isaiah promised that God would “set your stones in antimony, lay your foundations with sapphires, make your pinnacles of agate, your gates of carbuncles, and all your wall of precious stones” (Isa. 54:11–12). Another prophecy in the Book of Isaiah predicted that the glory of Lebanon, the