2 Chronicles 3:17

3:17 He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the right side and the other on the left. ¹  He named the one on the right Jachin, ²  and the one on the left Boaz. ³ 

2 Chronicles 4:8

4:8 He made ten tables and set them in the temple, five on the right and five on the left. He also made one hundred gold bowls.

2 Chronicles 4:22

4:22 the pure gold trimming shears, basins, pans, and censers, and the gold door sockets for the inner sanctuary (the most holy place) and for the doors of the main hall of the temple.

2 Chronicles 26:16

26:16 But once he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. ⁴  He disobeyed ⁵  the Lord his God. He entered the Lord’s temple to offer incense on the incense altar.

2 Chronicles 27:2

27:2 He did what the Lord approved, just as his father Uzziah had done. ⁶  (He did not, however, have the audacity to enter the temple.) ⁷  Yet the people were still sinning.

¹ tn Or “one on the south and the other on the north.”

² tn The name “Jachin” appears to be a verbal form and probably means, “he establishes.”

³ tn The meaning of the name “Boaz” is uncertain. For various proposals, see BDB 126-27 s.v. בֹּעַז. One attractive option is to revocalize the name asבְּעֹז (bÿ’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 Heb “his heart was high [i.e., proud] to destroy.”

⁵ tn Or “was unfaithful to.”

⁷ tn Heb “he did what was proper in the eyes of the Lord, according to all which Uzziah his father had done.”

⁸ tn Heb “except he did not enter the house of the Lord.”