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The secret of Solomon’s Pillars is this: The\u00a0Jachin\u00a0<\/em>pillar (meaning\u00a0Yah<\/em>\u00a0establishes)<\/em>\u00a0is King Solomon, and the\u00a0Boaz<\/em>\u00a0pillar (meaning\u00a0strength)<\/em>\u00a0is King David. And these two were Israel\u2019s most illustrious kings and also the ones mostly responsible for planning and\/or building the Jewish Temple. Both kings are messianic figures. All that follows is explanatory.<\/p>\n First, let us make it clear from the beginning that the name Jachin isnot<\/em>\u00a0at all etymologically related to the name Solomon, and only somewhat to his second name Jedidyah (2 Samuel 12:25). Nor is the name David etymologically related to Boaz at all. Nor does the following explanation rely solely on this etymological approach. To find the relation between the names of the pillars and these two kings, we must travel an additonal route. For a description of the pillars, see 1 Kings 7:15 – 22 and 2 Chronicles 3:16, 17.<\/p>\n David\u2019s Battles and Solomon as Jachin<\/strong><\/p>\n The scholarly opinion, seems generally agreed that Jachin means establish.\u00a0<\/em>But Boaz is highly disputable. It means\u00a0strength, boldness,<\/em>\u00a0striker\u00a0<\/em>or perhaps\u00a0fleetness \u2013\u00a0<\/em>or neither; it is an unknowable, some say .\u00a0<\/em>Its meaning, though, must not be searched for solely in its etymological origins, but also in the lives of both kings, what they did or what was said about or to them, and by whom.<\/p>\n In I Chronicles 17:1 King David expresses a desire to build God a house (temple) but the Lord gently declines the offer, v.3, telling him that, instead, his son (Solomon) will build it; and through his son, David\u2019s\u00a0 dynasty and kingdom will be \u201cestablished,\u201d a word used five time in vv. 17:9 – 14 in the Jewish Publication Society\u2019s\u00a0Tanakh<\/em>, and five more in 2 Samuel\u00a0 7:10 -16. Therefore, Solomon is the\u00a0establisher<\/em>. What does this have to do with the name Jachin? A great deal, because in I Chronicles 18:3 – 8 King David makes war against King Hadadezer, and conquers the towns of\u00a0Tibbath\u00a0<\/em>(also spelled\u00a0Tibhath)<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Cun (Chun)<\/em>\u00a0and takes massive amounts of bronze. And from this bronze, v. 8, Solomon makes various Temple vessels, including the twin bronze pillars\u00a0Jachin<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Boaz.<\/em>\u00a0But surprisingly, the name Cun is etymologically related to Jachin (Yakin). Cun means\u00a0establish<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0stand upright,\u00a0<\/em>while Jachin (Yakin,\u00a0Yah<\/em>-kin) means\u00a0Yah establishes. Yah\u00a0<\/em>is a contraction for Yahweh, God\u2019s name. Hence,\u00a0establish<\/em>\u00a0links Cun, Jachin, and Solomon, who was also named Jedidyah,\u00a0beloved of Yah\u00a0<\/em>. If so, is Tibbath also possibly linked to David?<\/p>\n As stated before, the bronze for the pillars was also gotten from Tibbath. But there is no\u00a0etymological link between Tibbath and Boaz. Unlike Jachin and Cun, Boaz and Tibbath have no root word connections at all. But are they conceptually related somehow? \u2013\u00a0 the answer is\u00a0yes<\/em>. For example,\u00a0seat<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0sofa<\/em>\u00a0have no etymological connections, no root unites both. The first is of Middle English origin, the latter of Arabic roots; yet both are conceptually related to the function of\u00a0sitting<\/em>.<\/p>\n Tibbath means\u00a0slay,<\/em>\u00a0slaughter or butcher\u00a0<\/em>and may even refer to a\u00a0cook<\/em>\u00a0as one who butchers animals for food. However, the root meaning itself refers to the slaughtering of animals or men. In 2 Sam. 8:8 Tibbath is rendered as\u00a0Betah*\u00a0<\/em>(see footnote). Further, it is believed Tibbath was derived from the name Tebah (thus, Betah), a nephew of Abraham listed in Genesis 22:24. What does Tebah mean?\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0a time or place of slaughtering<\/em>, Anchor Bible Dictionary, Vol. 6, p. 343.<\/p>\n All will agree that slaughtering animals or men involves shedding blood, and this is exactly why the Lord did not allow King David to build the Temple (I Chronicles 22:8, 9; 28:3) but appointed his son Solomon, instead. For \u201cyou have fought great battles and shed much blood,\u201d the Lord told David. This was not a rebuke, necessarily, but an indicator that he did not want the Temple assciated with war. In fact, before capturing Tibbath and Cun, David\u2019s army slew 22,000 men, I Chronicles 18:5.<\/p>\n By now the conceptual relation of Tibbath to Boaz ought be fairly clear: Successful battles are fought by\u00a0strong<\/em>\u00a0military men \u2013 by men of\u00a0force<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 and this is exactly what David was, a man of military might. God himself told him, \u201cYou have fought great battles,\u201d something which hardly fits a soft man or a military loser. And without question, David was the best Israelite warrior\u00a0ever<\/em>. How can he not be linked with strength or force? Finally, David began his military career by slaying Goliath, whom he decapitated \u00a0with the giant\u2019s own sword,\u00a0 I Samuel 17:50, 51. David, therefore, is Boaz, the military\u00a0strong<\/em>man,<\/em>\u00a0striker,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0slaughterer.<\/em><\/p>\n Should David be Honored with a Temple\u00a0Pillar?<\/strong><\/p>\n The question arises: If the Lord did not allow David to build the Temple because he was a man ofwar, why should he be honored by surreptitiously having one of the Temple\u2019s pillars\u00a0 represent him as Boaz?<\/p>\n First, David himself did not seek the honor; it may have been Solomon\u2019s idea. David died before the Temple was completed or the pillars erected and named. Second, in the Temple precincts there were many slaughterings and much bloodshed anyway because that\u2019s where animal sacrificial offerings were made daily, many more on special holy days.<\/p>\n But there is a third and far more important reason than the above two. It should be plain that\u00a0 what the Lord spurned was the shedding of much human blood in\u00a0physical<\/em>\u00a0warfare. There is another type of warfare that everyone should and\u00a0must<\/em>\u00a0engage in: Never surrender to a life of sin and immoralty, never give up this battle. The Israelites that came out of Egypt with Moses surrendered to the Evil Inclination, unbelief, idolatry and immorality and did not, except for a few, inherit the Land.\u00a0 Instead, a new generation under Joshua entered and took it. So in resisting evil within or outside oneself, every man, woman and child must be or become a Davidic warrior and \u2013 through\u00a0\u00a0faith<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 engage in\u00a0spiritual<\/em>\u00a0 warfare. The Tanach uses many physical things to illustrate invisible spiritual realties. Therefore, although the Temple was of stone, its lessons are of the spirit. Boaz honors David for his enduring\u00a0\u00a0faith<\/em>, the bedrock of his spiritual warfare.<\/p>\n King David also relates to the Bronze Altar\u00a0(mizbeach,<\/em>\u00a0meaning\u00a0\u00a0to slay, slaughter),<\/em>\u00a0for it is here that sin \u2013 the true enemy \u2013 is\u00a0slain,<\/em>\u00a0i.e., expiated through bloodletting. The altar David made after he sinned was the basis for the Temple\u2019s Bronze Altar, 2 Samuel 24:18, and the site (Mount Moriah) where the Temple was afterwards built, 2 Chronicles 3:1. King Solomon must have remade the Bronze Altar from the bronze gotten at Tibbath (I Chronicles 18:8) a name meaning\u00a0a place of slaughtering<\/em>. But Solomon himself relates to the Sea of Bronze whose water symbolizes the\u00a0spirit<\/em>\u00a0of God that makes plants (i.e.,\u00a0people)<\/em>\u00a0grow \u2013 become\u00a0established,\u00a0 flourish<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0develop<\/em>\u00a0in the Lord. And this also is why people are likened to fruit trees and plants, a king\u2019s garden through which the Lord walks,\u00a0 Genesis 3:8. After all, does not Judaism itself teach that the Temple is microcosm of the Garden in Eden?<\/p>\n The secret of Solomon’s Pillars is this: The\u00a0Jachin\u00a0pillar (meaning\u00a0Yah\u00a0establishes)\u00a0is King Solomon, and the\u00a0Boaz\u00a0pillar (meaning\u00a0strength)\u00a0is King David. And these two were Israel\u2019s most illustrious kings and also the ones mostly responsible for planning and\/or building the Jewish Temple. 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\nKing David as Boaz<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u201cYou have shed much blood\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n*\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Tibbath, Tebah, Betah \u2013 Tibbath is Betah. It seems, though, the author of 2 Samuel or a copyist transposed\u00a0Tebah<\/em>\u00a0( i.e.,\u00a0 Tibbath) into\u00a0Betah.<\/em>\u00a0But even this change seems heaven- directed, because Betah means\u00a0trust, security, confidence<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0hope<\/em>, all allusions to\u00a0faith<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 something that always loomed huge in David\u2019s life. Whatever one thinks of David, he was a man of profound faith. Regarding war he says, \u201cthe Lord is my rock,\u201d Psalms 144:1, as illustrated above.\u00a0 And as a youth, when facing a fully armored Goliath, he said to him, \u201c You come to me with a sword, spear and javelin… But I come to you in the name of the Lord…This day will the Lord deliver you into my hands,\u201d I Samuel 17:45- 46. Contrarily, when he put his faith in men by numbering the people, terrible things happened (II Samuel 24:1-17). But when his faith returned, v.v. 18-25, he built an altar atop Mount Moriah that became the site of Solomon\u2019s Temple , 2 Chronicles 3:1.\u00a0Faith for the battle ( slaughter)<\/em>\u00a0unites the meanings of Betah and Tibbath, while\u00a0 encapsulating David\u2019s mindset in military combat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"