15 17 (= 1Ki 7:15-22<\/span>). The Pillars Jachin and Boaz<\/p>\n 15<\/strong>. before the house two pillars<\/em> ] Cp. 1Ki 7:21<\/span>, he set up the pillars at the porch of the temple<\/em>, and Jer 52:17<\/span> (translate, the pillars that belonged to the house<\/em>). These pillars were immediately in front of the porch, but (it seems) detached from it. They were cast in brass (2Ch 4:11-17<\/span>), were hollow (Jer 52:21<\/span>), and were crowned with “chapiters” (capitals) in shape like bowls (1Ki 7:41<\/span>). The dimensions of the pillars (without the chapiters) are variously given thus: <\/p>\n 2Ch 3:15<\/span><\/p>\n (Heb.)<\/p>\n length<\/p>\n 35 cubits.<\/p>\n 2Ch 3:15<\/span><\/p>\n (LXX.)<\/p>\n height ( )<\/p>\n 35 cubits.<\/p>\n Jer 52:21<\/span><\/p>\n (Heb.)<\/p>\n height ( )<\/p>\n 18 cubits.<\/p>\n Jer 52:21<\/span><\/p>\n (LXX.)<\/p>\n height ( )<\/p>\n 35 cubits.<\/p>\n 1Ki 7:15<\/span><\/p>\n (Heb. and LXX.)<\/p>\n height ( )<\/p>\n 18 cubits.<\/p>\n Jer 52:21<\/span><\/p>\n (Heb. and LXX.)<\/p>\n circumference<\/p>\n 12 cubits.<\/p>\n 1Ki 7:15<\/span><\/p>\n (Heb.)<\/p>\n circumference<\/p>\n 12 cubits.<\/p>\n 1Ki 7:15<\/span><\/p>\n (LXX.)<\/p>\n circumference<\/p>\n 14 cubits.<\/p>\n The purpose for which the pillars were erected is not certainly known. The fact that names were given them (2Ch 3:17<\/span>) suggests that they were symbols, perhaps of the presence of Jehovah; cp. Isa 19:19<\/span>, where a pillar, mabh<\/em>, is regarded (equally with an altar) as “a sign and witness unto the Lord.” Such a pillar might sometimes be used as an altar; cp. 1Ch 11:22<\/span> (note) and Gen 28:18<\/span>; and the “bowls” of the chapiters of Solomon’s two pillars may have been meant to contain something to be burnt in sacrifice. See Robertson Smith, Religion of the Semites<\/em>, p. 191, note 1, and Additional Note L, where there is an illustration of a coin shewing two detached pillars standing in front of the temple of Aphrodite at Paphos. The two pillars in the temple of Heracles at Tyre, of which Herodotus (2:44) speaks, were perhaps simply votive offerings.<\/p>\n Of thirty and five cubits – <\/B>See 1Ki 7:15<\/span> note. Some suppose that there has been a corruption of the number in the present passage.<\/P><\/p>\n Before the house, <\/B>i.e. before the holy house, or before the temple as this is explained, 1Ch 3:17<\/span>, lest it should be understood of the most holy house, of which he had spoken before. <\/P> Thirty and five cubits<\/B> high, to wit, both of them; of which See Poole “1Ki 7:15<\/span>“. <\/P> <\/p>\n [See comments on 2Ch 3:1]<\/span>.<\/p>\n The two brazen pillars<\/em> before the house, i.e., before the porch, whose form is more accurately described in 1Ki 7:15-22<\/span>. The height of it is here given at thirty-five cubits, while, according to 1Ki 7:15<\/span>; 2Ki 25:17<\/span>; Jer 52:21<\/span>, it was only eighteen cubits. The number thirty-five has arisen by confounding = 18 with = 35; see on 1Ki 7:16<\/span>. ( . . ) from , overlay, cover, is the hood of the pillar, i.e., the capital, called in 1Ki 7:16<\/span>. , crown, capital, five cubits high, as in 1Ki 7:16<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2Ch 3:16<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong> “And he made little chains on the collar (Halsreife), and put it on the top of the pillars, and made 100 pomegranates, and put them on the chains.” In the first clause of this verse, , “in (on) the most holy place,” has no meaning, for the most holy place is not here being discussed, but the pillars before the porch, or rather an ornament on the capital of these pillars. We must not therefore think of chains in the most holy place, which extended thence out to the pillars, as the Syriac and Arabic seem to have done, paraphrasing as they do: chains of fifty cubits (i.e., the length of the holy place and the porch). According to 1Ki 7:17-20<\/span> and 1Ki 7:41<\/span>., compared with 2Ch 4:12-13<\/span>, each capital consisted of two parts. The lower part was a circumvolution (Wulst) covered with chain-like net-work, one cubit high, with a setting of carved pomegranates one row above and one row below. The upper part, or that which formed the crown of the capital, was four cubits high, and carved in the form of an open lily-calyx. In our verse it is the lower part of the capital, the circumvolution, with the chain net-work and the pomegranates, which is spoken of. From this, Bertheau concludes that must signify the same as the more usual , viz., “the lattice-work which was set about the top of the pillars, and served to fasten the pomegranates,” and that bdbyr has arisen out of by a transposition of the letters. (chains) should be read here. This conjecture so decidedly commends itself, that we regard it as certainly correct, since denotes in Gen 41:42<\/span>; Eze 16:11<\/span>, a necklace, and so may easily denote also a ring or hoop; but we cannot adopt the translation “chains on a ring,” nor the idea that the , since it surrounded the head of the pillars as a girdle or broad ring, is called the ring of the pillars. For this idea does not agree with the translation “chains in a ring,” even when they are conceived of as “chain-like ornaments, which could scarcely otherwise be made visible on the ring than by open work.” Then the chain-like decorations were not, as Bertheau thinks, on the upper and under border of the ring, but formed a net-work which surrounded the lower part of the capital of the pillar like a ring, as though a necklace had been drawn round it. consequently is not the same as , but rather corresponds to that part of the capital which is called ( ) in 1Ki 7:14<\/span>; for the served to cover the , and were consequently placed on or over the , as the pomegranates were on the chains or woven work. denotes the curve, the circumvolution, which is in 1Ki 7:20<\/span> called , a broad-arched band, bulging towards the middle, which formed the lower part of the capital. This arched part of the capital the author of the Chronicle calls , ring or collar, because it may be regarded as the neck ornament of the head of the pillar, in contrast to the upper part of the capital, that consisted in lily-work, i.e., the ball wrought into the form of an open lily-calyx ( ( xylac- ).<\/p>\n 2Ch 3:17<\/span><\/p>\n <\/strong> As to the position of the pillars, and their names, see on 1Ki 7:21<\/span>.<\/p>\n See note on 1Ki 7:13<\/span><\/p>\n (d<\/em>) THE TWO BRONZE PILLARS IN THE PORCH<\/strong> (15) Before the house.<\/strong>Before the holy place, in the porch.<\/p>\n Two pillars of thirty and five cubits high.<\/strong>Two pillars thirty and five cubits in length.<\/em> 1Ki. 7:15<\/span> says eighteen cubits, so also 2Ki. 25:17<\/span>; Jer. 52:21<\/span>; and no doubt correctly. Of the versions, the LXX. and Vulg. have thirty-five; the Syriac and Arabic, eighteen.<\/p>\n The chapiter<\/strong>i.e., the capital.<\/em> French, chapitre.<\/em> Literally, the ornament.<\/em> 1Ki. 7:16<\/span> has the crown; so 2Ch. 4:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n 2Ch 3:15<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. <\/strong>Two pillars of thirty and five cubits<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> See 1Ki 7:15<\/span>. <\/p>\n REFLECTIONS.<\/strong>1st, The account of the building of the temple, we had, 1 Kings 6<\/span> more at large. Three years were taken up in needful preparations; on the fourth, Solomon laid the foundation. The dimensions exactly corresponded with the pattern given him by David, 1Ch 28:2<\/span>. The porch led into the greater house, <\/em>or the holy place; and that into the holiest of all, within the vail. The whole was covered throughout, on the inside, with plates of gold, with golden chains, and palm-trees embossed; the very nails were fine gold, each of fifty shekels weight, or perhaps of that value. In the gold, the precious stones were set, glittering by the light of the lamps with inconceivable lustre; yet how poor all this, great and glorious as it was, compared with that heavenly temple, where every faithful believer consecrated to God is not only for a time to minister, but for eternity to dwell! See Rev 21:18-19<\/span>; Rev 21:21<\/span>. <\/p>\n 2nd, The cherubims represented the angels, bending in adoration towards the mercy-seat, to teach us, that what is their work should be ours. A vail separated the most holy place: that dispensation was dark; but the vail is done away in Christ, and the mercy-seat open to every believing sinner. On this vail cherubims were wrought, or caused to ascend, <\/em>either raised work, or in an ascending posture, as if mounting to heaven, whither in our devotions our hearts should soar. The two pillars were at the entrance; see 1Ki 7:15<\/span>. Every true believer is like these, firm and immoveable against all enemies; and adorned with divine graces more precious than wrought gold. <\/p>\n 2Ch 3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.<\/p>\n Ver. 15. Also he made before the house two pillars.<\/strong> ] These were cast by Hiram, as great ordnance are now-a-days, round and hollow. See on 1Ki 7:15<\/span> .<\/p>\n thirty and five cubits. In 1Ki 7:15 = eighteen cubits. But there it is “apiece”; here they are reckoned together. See note on 1Ki 7:15. <\/p>\n 2Ch 3:15-17<\/p>\n 2Ch 3:15-17<\/p>\n ANOTHER ONE OF SOLOMON’S SINS: JACHIN AND BOAZ<\/p>\n “And he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the capital that was upon each of them was five cubits. And he made chains in the oracle, and put them on the tops of the pillars; and he made a hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains. And he set up the pillars before the temple, one of the right hand, and the other on the left; and he called the name of that on the right hand Jachin, and the name of that on the left Boaz.”<\/p>\n (See our full discussion of these pagan pillars which Solomon put in front of the temple in our commentary on 1Kings, pp. 83-85.)<\/p>\n The accounts in Kings and Chronicles vary as to the exact dimensions of those pillars; but so what? They were sinful innovations anyway.<\/p>\n E.M. Zerr:<\/p>\n 2Ch 3:15. These pillars were over 50 feet high. The chapiter was an ornamental cap or head, and it was seven and a half feet high. <\/p>\n 2Ch 3:16. The chains were for holding these ornamental pomegranates. <\/p>\n 2Ch 3:17. Proper names usually conveyed some special meaning. Jachin is defined in the margins of many Bibles as “establish,” and the lexicon agrees. Boaz is of rather uncertain meaning, but the margin gives us “fleetness.” The idea expressed by Solomon in these large pillars with such names, was an acknowledgement of the favor of God extended to him in his undertakings.<\/p>\n two pillars: 1Ki 7:15-24, Jer 52:20-23 <\/p>\n thirty: The Syriac and Arabic have, agreeably to the parallel passage, “eighteen cubits high;” but the Septuagint, Chaldee, and Vulgate have “thirty and five cubits high.” See note on 1Ki 7:15. <\/p>\n high: Heb. long <\/p>\n Reciprocal: 2Ch 4:12 – To wit Jer 52:21 – concerning Jer 52:22 – with network<\/p>\n 2Ch 3:15-16. He also made before the house That is, before the holy house, or temple, as it is explained 2Ch 3:17; two pillars of thirty and five cubits high Namely, both taken together, being each near eighteen cubits, 1Ki 7:15. He made chains as in the oracle Like unto those which he made in the oracle, of which see 1Ki 6:21. And made a hundred pomegranates In each row, or two hundred in all, as it is said 1Ki 7:20. These pillars, according to the signification of their names, Jachin and Boaz, mean establishment and strength. See the margin. <\/p>\n 3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of {g} thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits.<\/p>\n (g) Every one was eighteen cubits long, but the half cubit could not be seen, for it was hid in the roundness of the chapiter, and therefore he gives to every one only 17 and a half.<\/p>\n Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that [was] on the top of each of them [was] five cubits. 15 17 (= 1Ki 7:15-22). 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