Was Boaz named after the column in the temple?
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Was Ruth's husband, Boaz named after the column by the temple of Solomon or vice versa? Or was this a quiescence? Was this a common name for boys?
**Ruth 2:1 ESV**
> Now Naomi had a relative of her husband's, a worthy man of the clan of
> Elimelech, whose name was Boaz.
and
**2 Chronicles 3:17 ESV**
> He set up the pillars in front of the temple, one on the south, the
> other on the north; that on the south he called Jachin, and that on
> the north Boaz.
Asked by user1054
Oct 3, 2012, 01:39 AM
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