2 Chronicles 24:15

But Jehoiada became old and full of days, and he came to his end; he was a hundred and thirty years old at the time of his death.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

In Context

14And when the work was done, they took the rest of the money to the king and Jehoiada, and it was used for making the vessels for the house of the Lord, all the vessels needed for the offerings, the spoons and the vessels of gold and silver. And as long as Jehoiada was living, the regular burned offerings were offered in the house of the Lord.

16And they put him into his last resting-place in the town of David, among the kings, because he had done good in Israel for God and for his house.

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Cross References

Genesis 15:15As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.

Genesis 47:9And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

2 Chronicles 24:3And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Psalms 90:10The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

Matthew Henry on 2 Chronicles 24:2-15

The Temple Repaired. ( b. c. 855.) 1 Joash was seven years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Zibiah of Beer-sheba. 2 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters. 4 And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord . 5 And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out… Read the whole commentary →

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