2 Chronicles 3:16-17

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¹⁶He made chains in a necklace and put them on the tops of the columns. He made 100 pomegranates^[a] and put them on the chains. ¹⁷Then he put the columns up in front of the Temple. One column stood on the right side. The other column stood on the left side. He named the column on the right side “Jakin.”^[b] And he named the column on the left side “Boaz.”^[c]

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Footnotes

2 Chronicles 3:16 pomegranates Small bells shaped like pomegranates, a red fruit with many tiny seeds covered with a soft, juicy part of the fruit. Also in 4:13.
2 Chronicles 3:17 Jakin In Hebrew, Jakin seems to mean “he establishes.”
2 Chronicles 3:17 Boaz In Hebrew, Boaz seems to mean “in him is strength.”