1 Kings 10:8

10:8 Your attendants, who stand before you at all times and hear your wise sayings, are truly happy! ¹ 

1 Kings 12:8

12:8 But Rehoboam rejected their advice and consulted the young advisers who served him, with whom he had grown up. ² 

1 Kings 7:21

7:21 He set up the pillars on the porch in front of the main hall. He erected one pillar on the right ³  side and called it Jakin; ⁴  he erected the other pillar on the left ⁵  side and called it Boaz. ⁶ 

1 Kings 7:41

7:41 He made ⁷  the two pillars, the two bowl-shaped tops of the pillars, the latticework for the bowl-shaped tops of the two pillars,

¹ tn Heb “How happy are your men! How happy are these servants of yours, who stand before you continually, who hear your wisdom!”

² tn Heb “He rejected the advice of the elders which they advised and he consulted the young men with whom he had grown up, who stood before him.” The referent (Rehoboam) of the initial pronoun (“he”) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

³ tn Or “south.”

⁴ sn The name Jakin appears to be a verbal form and probably means, “he establishes.”

⁵ tn Or “north.”

⁶ sn The meaning of the name Boaz is uncertain. For various proposals, see BDB 126-27 s.v. בעז. One attractive option is to revocalize the name as בְּעֹז (be’oz, “in strength”) and to understand it as completing the verbal form on the first pillar. Taking the words together and reading from right to left, one can translate the sentence, “he establishes [it] in strength.”

⁴ tn The words “he made” are added for stylistic reasons.