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16 He made chains for the inner sanctuary[a] and also put them on the tops of the pillars. He also made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains. 17 He set up the pillars in front of the temple building,[b] one on the south side and the other on the north. He named the one on the south Jakin[c] and the one on the north Boaz.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:16 See 1 Kings 6:21, which states that the chains were across the front of the inner room.
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:17 Here the Hebrew word hekal refers to the whole temple building. Sometimes it refers only to the front room.
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:17 Jakin means he establishes.
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:17 Boaz means in him is strength.