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The two pillars

15 Solomon's workers made two pillars to stand at the front of the temple. They were 16 metres high.[a] There was a piece on the top of each pillar that was 2.2 metres high.

16 They made images of chains around the top pieces of the pillars. They also made 100 images of pomegranates among the chains. 17 Then they put the two pillars at the entrance of the temple. One pillar stood on the south side of the entrance. The other pillar stood on the north side. Solomon called the pillar on the south side ‘Jakin’. He called the pillar on the north side ‘Boaz’.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 3:15 Or possibly 8 metres high.
  2. 3:17 Jakin probably means ‘God makes it strong’. Boaz probably means ‘with strength’.

15 For the front of the temple he made two pillars,(A) which together were thirty-five cubits[a] long, each with a capital(B) five cubits high. 16 He made interwoven chains[b](C) and put them on top of the pillars. He also made a hundred pomegranates(D) and attached them to the chains. 17 He erected the pillars in the front of the temple, one to the south and one to the north. The one to the south he named Jakin[c] and the one to the north Boaz.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 3:15 That is, about 53 feet or about 16 meters
  2. 2 Chronicles 3:16 Or possibly made chains in the inner sanctuary; the meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
  3. 2 Chronicles 3:17 Jakin probably means he establishes.
  4. 2 Chronicles 3:17 Boaz probably means in him is strength.