The name given to the two pillars erected at the portico of the temple built by Solomon; "The pillar to the south he named Jakin and the one to the north Boaz." (1 Ki 7:21; 2 Chron 3:17).
Made of bronze they were cast by craftsman named Huram ("whose mother was a widow from the tribe of Naphtali and whose father was a man of Tyre and a craftsman in bronze. Huram was highly skilled and experienced in all kinds of bronze work," 1 Ki 7:14), the pillars were about eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits round, by line. He also made two capitals of cast bronze to set on the tops of the pillars; each capital was five cubits high. A network of interwoven chains festooned the capitals on top of the pillars, seven for each capital. He made pomegranates in two rows encircling each network to decorate the capitals on top of the pillars. He did the same for each capital. The capitals on top of the pillars in the portico were in the shape of lilies, four cubits high. On the capitals of both pillars, above the bowl-shaped part next to the network, were the two hundred pomegranates in rows all around. (vv15-20).
The temple built by Solomon (i.e., the First Temple) was so totally demolished or looted by the Babylonians in 586/7 BC, nothing of it, including these pillars, has ever been found.
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