JACHIN AND BOAZ

ja'-kin (yakhin, "he shall establish"; bo`az, "in it is strength," 1 Kings 7:15-22 2 Kings 25:16, 17; 2 Chronicles 3:15-17 Jeremiah 52:17): These were the names of the two bronze pillars that stood before the temple of Solomon. They were not used in supporting the building; their appearance, therefore, must have been solely due to moral and symbolic reasons. What these are it is not easy to say. The pillars were not altar pillars with hearths at their top, as supposed by W.R. Smith (Religion of the Semites, 191, 468); rather they were "pillars of witness," as was the pillar that witnessed the contract between Jacob and Laban (Genesis 31:52). At difficulty arises about the height of the pillars. The writers in Kings and Jeremiah affirm that the pillars before the porch were 18 cubits high apiece (1 Kings 7:15 Jeremiah 52:21), while the Chronicler states that they were 35 cubits (2 Chronicles 3:15). Various methods have been suggested of reconciling this discrepancy, but it is more probable that there is a corruption in the Chronicler's number. On the contruction of the pillars and their capitals, see TEMPLE. At the final capture of Jerusalem they were broken up and the metal of which they were composed was sent to Babylon (2 Kings 25:13, 16). In Ezekiel's ideal temple the two pillars are represented by pillars of wood (Ezekiel 40:49).

W. Shaw Caldecott

The Sixth
... He it was who built the temple, and put in its porch those mysterious pillars
"Jachin and Boaz" (1 Kings 7:13-22; 2 Chronicles 3:17). ...
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Hiram, the Inspired Artificer
... But the most glorious work of Hiram was the construction of the two majestic brasen
pillars, called Jachin and Boaz, They were stately in height, the shaft of ...
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The First Sermon in the Tabernacle
... Remove the Word who was in the beginning with God, and who was God, and
the Jachin and Boaz of the temple are overturned. Without ...
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Israel and Britain. A Note of Warning
... the doors moved. If I am rightly informed, there were two huge columns
before the temple called Jachin and Boaz. These were made ...
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A view of God's Glory
... covenant, whose solid golden floor is made of the solemn decrees of the predestination
of the Most High; and whose sides are called Jachin and Boaz, that is ...
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Solomon's Temple Spiritualized
... The name of that on the right hand was called Jachin, [God] shall establish; and
the name of that on the left hand was Boaz, in it is strength (1 Kings 7:21; 2 ...
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The Hebrews and the Philistines --Damascus
History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, V 6. <. ...
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