2 Chronicles 24:3
Jehoiada chose two women to be Joash’s wives. And they bore Joash sons and daughters.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
In Context
2Joash did what pleased Yahweh as long as Jehoiada was the Supreme Priest.
4Some years later, Joash decided that the temple should be repaired.
Cross References
Genesis 4:19When Lamech grew up he married two women. The name of one was Adah and the other was Zillah.
Genesis 24:4Instead, go back to my country and to my relatives and get a wife for my son Isaac from among them.”
Matthew 19:4Jesus said to them, “ Because you have read [RHQ] the Scriptures, you should know that at the time God first created people, ‘he made one man, and he made one woman to be that man’s wife.’
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 →