2 Chronicles 3:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right, the other on the left; the one on the right he called Jachin, and the one on the left, Boaz.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And he reared 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ He erected the pillars before the temple, one on the right, the other on the left, and called the one on the right Jachin [he shall establish] and the one on the left Boaz [in it is strength].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Then he set up the pillars in front of the sanctuary, one on the south, the other on the north. The one on the south he named Jachin, and the one on the north he named Boaz.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ Also, he placed these pillars in the vestibule of the temple, one to the right, and the other to the left. The one that was on the right, he called Jachin; and the one that was on the left, Boaz.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ These pillars he put at the entrance of the temple, one on the right hand, and the other on the left. That which was on the right hand, he called Jachin: and that on the left hand, Booz.

2 Chronicles 3:17 Cross References

Genesis 46:10

The children of Simeon: Jemuel, Jamin, Ohad, Jachin, Zohar, and Shaul, the son of a Canaanite woman.

1 Kings 7:21

He set up the pillars at the vestibule of the temple; he set up the pillar on the south and called it Jachin, and he set up the pillar on the north and called it Boaz.

2 Chronicles 3:16

He made encircling chains and put them on the tops of the pillars, and he made one hundred pomegranates and put them on the chains.

Ezekiel 40:49

The width of the vestibule was twenty cubits and the depth twelve cubits; ten steps led up to it, and there were pillars beside the posts on either side.