1 Kings 7:21

_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._ Jachin: and ... Boaz, х_ YAAKIYN_ (H3199), whom God makes firm (Gesenius) - 'the firm' (Movers); _ BO`AZ _ (H1162), alacrity (Gesenius) - 'the moving' or 'advancing' (Movers).] These names were symbolical, and indicated the strength and stability, not so much of the material temple, for they were destroyed along with it (Jeremiah 52:17), as of the spiritual kingdom of God, which was embodied in the temple....

13-47 The two brazen pillars in the porch of the temple, some think, were to teach those that came to worship, to depend upon God only, for strength and establishment in all their religious exercises. "Jachin," God will fix this roving mind. It is good that the heart be established with grace. "Boaz," In him is our strength, who works in us both to will and to do. Spiritual strength and stability are found at the door of God's temple, where we must wait for the gifts of grace, in use of the means of grace. Spiritual priests and spiritual sacrifices must be washed in the laver of Christ's blood, and of regeneration. We must wash often, for we daily contract pollution. There are full means provided for our cleansing; so that if we have our lot for ever among the unclean it will be our own fault. Let us bless God for the fountain opened by the sacrifice of Christ for sin and for uncleanness...

Verse 1 Kings 7:21. _THE RIGHT PILLAR - JACHIN_] is, _He shall establish_. _The left pillar - Boaz_, that is, _in strength_. These were no doubt emblematical; for notwithstanding their _names_, they seem to have supported no part of the building....

The Septuagint in the parallel passage (margin reference), translate Jachin and Boaz by Κατόρθωσις _Katorthōsis_ and Ἰσχύς _Ischus_ - “Direction” and “Strength.” The literal meaning of the names is given in the margin. The meaning was probably “God will establish in strength” (i. e. firmly) the temple and the religion connected with it....

EXPOSITION SOLOMON'S PALACES AND THE PREPARATION OF THE TEMPLE VESSELS.—The first twelve verses of this chapter constitute a break in the long account of the Temple, its furniture and its consecration. The historian having described the Temple buildings, before he passes on to speak of their contents pauses for a moment to record a few particulars as to the building of the suite of palaces which next occupied Solomon's attention. The LXX; possibly following an older arrangement, but more probably (see next note) adopting an apparently more logical and methodical order, relegates this section to the end of the chapter. 1 KINGS 7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen

AND HE SET UP THE PILLARS IN THE PORCH OF THE TEMPLE,.... Not at the door or entrance into the temple, as Jarchi, but at the entrance into the porch: AND HE SET UP THE RIGHT PILLAR; or the pillar on the right hand as you went in, which was on the north, the front being east: AND CALLED THE NAME THEREOF JACHIN; which signifies "he will establish", i.e. the house to which here was an entrance, so long as the pure worship of God should continue in it: AND HE SET UP THE LEFT PILLAR; or the pillar on the left hand, which was to the south, unless the position of them was as you come out: AND CALLED THE NAME THEREOF BOAZ; which signifies "in him", or "it is strength", namely, in the Lord that dwelt there; for this has no respect to Boaz, a prince of the house of Judah, from whom all its kings sprung, as the Targum, in...

JACHIN That is, He shall establish. BOAZ That is, in it is strength....

CHAPTER 7 THE HOUSE OF SOLOMON AND PHARAOH'S DAUGHTERTHE FURNISHINGS OF THE TEMPLE _ 1. The house of the forest of Lebanon (1 Kings 7:1)_ 2. The royal palace and the house of Pharaoh's daughter (1 Kings 7:8) 3. The master workman (1 Kings 7:13) 4. The great pillars and chapiters (1 Kings 7:15) 5. The brazen sea (1 Kings 7:23) 6. The ten lavers with their carriages (1 Kings 7:27) 7. Hiram's work ...

1 KINGS 7. SOLOMON'S PALACE (1 KINGS 1-12). THE TEMPLE IMPLEMENTS (1KINGS 13- 51). Twenty years (_cf._ 1 Kings 9:10 with 1 Kings 7:1) was Solomon engaged in building. After completing the Temple he built his own palace, with its courts and approaches. These, according to Stade, were erected on the Ophel hill, which lay S. of the Temple mountain, and were constructed so as to lead up to the sanctuary itself. The whole chapter, like most of the 6th, is from a source descriptive of the Temple. First came what was called, probably from its rows of cedar pillars, the house of the forest of Lebanon (1 Kings 7:2). Part of this was used as an armoury ...

IN THE PORCH. for the porch. JACHIN. He (God) will establish. Referring to His BOAZ. In Him (God) is strength, People Israel....