2nd Chronicles Chapter 24 verse 3 Holy Bible
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
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And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
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Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.
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And Jehoiada taketh for him two wives, and he begetteth sons and daughters.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 3. - That special note is made of Jehoiada's selecting of the wives may at any rate point to the suggestion that he was all a father to Joash, and both for his own sake and the kingdom's sake anxious as to the character of the women by whom a new kingly seed should take rise in place of that destroyed by Athaliah (2 Chronicles 22:10). Our 2 Chronicles 25:1 leaves it probable that "Jehoaden of Jerusalem" was one of these, though it is likely enough that Joash married, whether her or some one else, before he had reached the age of twenty-one. It is also quite likely that we may read between the lines, that in selecting two wives for his young and loved ward, Jehoiada hoped and prayed that Joash might not fall by sin like Solomon's (1 Kings 11:3) and that of others of the kings of both Judah and Israel.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(3) And Jehoiada took for him two wives.--A statement not found in the parallel narrative, and doubtless taken by the compiler from another source. Instead of this, we read in 2Kings 12:4 : "Only the high places were not taken away; the people were still wont to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places."
