Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of 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 took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.
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- Genesis 4:19 Lamech took two wives: the name of the first one was Adah, and the name of the second one was Zillah.
- Genesis 21:21 He lived in the wilderness of Paran. His mother got a wife for him out of the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 24:4 But you shall go to my country, and to my relatives, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
- 2 Chronicles 24:15 But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
- Matthew 19:4-8 He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh?’ So that they are no more two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, don’t let man tear apart.” They asked him, “Why then did Moses command us to give her a certificate of divorce, and divorce her?” He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it has not been so.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain Or, gave him two wives.
Or, gave him two wives.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 2Ch 24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives;…
2Ch 24:3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
Ver. 3. And Jehoiada took for him two wives.] What could his own father, if living, have done more for him?
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And it came to pass after this,.... After his…
And it came to pass after this,.... After his marriage, when he was about twenty or twenty one years of age, perhaps:
that Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord; which in some places might be fallen to decay, having been built one hundred and fifty years or more, and in others defaced by Athaliah, and needed ornamenting, see Kg2 12:4.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Athaliah’s destruction of the seed royal had left Joash…
Athaliah’s destruction of the seed royal had left Joash without a natural successor, and his marriage at the earliest suitable age, was, therefore, a matter of state policy. One of his wives in question was probably “Jehoaddan of Jerusalem,” the mother of Amaziah 2Ch 25:1, who must have been taken to wife by Joash as early as his 21st year.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Him. Joas, as Protestants (H.) and most interpreters understand…
Him. Joas, as Protestants (H.) and most interpreters understand it, with the Syriac, &c. Joiada was too old to think of marrying again, as the Rabbins would explain the Hebrew, conformably to the Sept. and Arabic, "himself." C. --- Joas did not probably marry two at once. Salien, the year of the world 3766. --- Amasias was born of Joadan, chap, xxv. 1. M. --- The high priest considered Joas as his son, being married to his aunt. H.
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain Jehoiada took for him two wives--As Jehoiada was now…
Jehoiada took for him two wives--As Jehoiada was now too old to contract such new alliances, the generality of interpreters apply this statement to the young king.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (3) And Jehoiada took for him two wives.—A statement…
(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 2Ki_12:4 : “Only the high places were not taken away; the people were still wont to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places.”
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain That special note is made of Jehoiada"s selecting of…
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. (2Ch_22:10) Our 2Ch_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 (1Ki_11:3) and that of others of the kings of both Judah and Israel.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 24:3 Jehoiada chose two wives for Joash, probably to…
24:3 Jehoiada chose two wives for Joash, probably to ensure that David’s royal line would be replenished with plenty of descendants.
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