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Boaz and Jachin
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Boaz and Jachin were the name of the two pillars that stood in the porch of Solomon's Temple, the first Temple in Jerusalem (1 Kings 7:21; 2 Kings 11:14; 23:3).
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Boaz ("in strength") was on the left, and Jachin ("he establishes"), also spelled Jakin (יָכִין, Standard Hebrew Yaḫin, Tiberian Hebrew Yāḵîn) was on the right. The pillars are said to have been huge, nearly 6 feet thick and 27 feet tall. The chapiters or capitals on top of the columns were made of brass 8 feet high, decorated with brass lilies.
It is written that King Solomon sent to the King of Tyre for help in the building of his temple. (1 Kings 5) To his aid, he sent Hiram, a widow's son, but also a man of Tyre (1 Kings 7). Hiram was an expert in crafting brass. He cast the pillars eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits around, and hollow, 4 fingers thick. (Jeremiah 52:21-22). The bowl of each chapiter was covered with nets of checkerwork, decorated with rows of two hundred pomegranates, wreathed with seven chains for each chapiter, and topped with lilies. (1 Kings 7:13-22, 41-42) The Bible says that King Hezekiah instituted a religious iconoclastic reform, and removved the objects from the Temple. When the young reforming king came to the throne of Judah in the late 8th century BC:
"He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan." 2 Kings 18:4. [1]
[edit] Derived contexts
The two pillars are part of the symbolism attached to the freemasons' representation of Solomon's Temple (cf. this image)
Boaz and Jachin are depicted on some variants of the Tarot card The High Priestess
The Lion of Boaz-Jachin and Jachin-Boaz is a novel by Russell Hoban
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References
^ Hastings, J., Selbie, J. A., Davidson, A. B., Driver, S. R., & Swete, H. B. (1898). A dictionary of the Bible: dealing with its language, literature, and contents, including the Biblical theology. New York: C. Scribner's sons. Page 510.
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