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1 Kings 7:21

He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.

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  • WEB World English Bible

    He set up the pillars at the porch of the temple. He set up the right pillar, and called its name Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called its name Boaz.

  • KJV King James Version

    And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple; and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin; and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.

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Cross-references (11)

Passages linked to 1 Kings 7:21 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • 2 Chronicles 3:17 He set up the pillars before the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left; and called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.
  • 1 Kings 6:3 The porch in front of the temple of the house had a length of twenty cubits, which was along the width of the house. Ten cubits was its width in front of the house.
  • Ruth 4:21 and Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed,
  • 2 Samuel 7:12 When your days are fulfilled, and you sleep with your fathers, I will set up your offspring after you, who will proceed out of your body, and I will establish his kingdom.
  • 1 Kings 7:12 The great court around had three courses of cut stone, and a course of cedar beams; like the inner court of Yahweh’s house and the porch of the house.
  • Isaiah 9:7 Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on David’s throne, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.
  • Isaiah 45:24 They will say of me, ‘There is righteousness and strength only in Yahweh.’ ” Even to him will men come. All those who raged against him will be disappointed.
  • Ezekiel 40:48-49 Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side. The width of the gate was three cubits on this side and three cubits on that side. The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the width eleven cubits; even by the steps by which they went up to it. There were pillars by the posts, one on this side, and another on that side.
  • Matthew 16:18 I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
  • Galatians 2:9 and when they perceived the grace that was given to me, James and Cephas and John, those who were reputed to be pillars, gave to Barnabas and me the right hand of fellowship, that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcision.
  • Revelation 3:12 He who overcomes, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he will go out from there no more. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my own new name.

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Explain this verse (14 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Which was in the inner court between the Temple…

Which was in the inner court between the Temple and the oracle.

That is, he will stablish, to wit, his promise toward this house.

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That is, in strength: meaning the power thereof shall continue.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 1Ki 7:21 And he set up the pillars in…
Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain In the porch of the temple; where they were…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And upon the top of the pillars was lily…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Jachin - Jachin signifies he; That is, God shall…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 21. The right pillar - Jachin] is, He…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain 1Ki 7:21. He set up the pillars in the…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain The Septuagint in the parallel passage (margin reference), translate…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Temple. Against the wall, (Jeremias lii. 23,) on each…
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Jachin and . . . Boaz--These names were symbolical,…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 21. The right pillar — The one standing at…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 21. And he set up the pillars in the…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And he set up the pillars in the porch…
C. I. Scofield 1917 · Public Domain Jachin i.e. He shall establish.

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