Open Side Menu Search Icon
    pdf View PDF
    The content displayed below is for educational and archival purposes only.
    Unless stated otherwise, content is © Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania

    You may be able to find the original on wol.jw.org

    JACHIN

    (Jaʹchin) [May [Jehovah] Firmly Establish].

    1. The fourth-listed son of Simeon. (Ge 46:10) He is apparently called Jarib at 1 Chronicles 4:24. His descendants, the Jachinites, comprised one of the Simeonite families in Israel.​—Ex 6:15; Nu 26:12.

    2. The priest whose paternal house was selected by lot to care for the 21st of the 24 priestly divisions that David organized. (1Ch 24:7, 17) One or more of his descendants (or of another priest of the same name) resided in Jerusalem after the Babylonian exile.​—1Ch 9:3, 10; Ne 11:10.

    3. The southernmost of the twin pillars standing in front of Solomon’s temple.​—1Ki 7:15-22; see BOAZ, II; CAPITAL.