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2 Chronicles 3:16 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 16. 16And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
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Role in This Section
This verse advances the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence: “And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and….” Its responsible meaning belongs to the complete movement “Jachin and Boaz stand before the temple.”
Read It With
- 2 Chronicles 3:15–17
Read 2 Chronicles 3:16 with 3:15–17. The selected wording supplies one step in the thought unit through its next action, speech, or consequence; the surrounding verses supply the causes, responses, and outcome summarized here: Two named pillars with capitals, chains, and pomegranates are erected before the temple.
Why It Needs Context
2 Chronicles 3:16 depends on 3:15–17; isolating “And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and…” would detach a supporting action, quotation, name, number, object, or transition from “Jachin and Boaz stand before the temple.”
Read 2 Chronicles 3:15–17 together
Why these verses belong together: 2 Chronicles 3:15–17 forms the complete movement “Jachin and Boaz stand before the temple”: Two named pillars with capitals, chains, and pomegranates are erected before the temple.
Verse 15. 15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was five cubits.
Verse 16. 16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
Verse 17. 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.
Continue in Context
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Read 2 Chronicles 3:15–17 — Jachin and Boaz stand before the templeSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: 2 Chronicles 3:15–17, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: 2 Chronicles
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, clauses, regnal formulas, temple vocabulary, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/2Chr.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 3:15–17
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