2 Chronicles 24:3

3 Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.

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2 Chronicles 24:3 in Other Translations

KJV

3 And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

ESV

3 Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

NLT

3 Jehoiada chose two wives for Joash, and he had sons and daughters.

MSG

3 Jehoiada picked out two wives for him; he had a family of both sons and daughters.

CSB

3 Jehoiada acquired two wives for him, and he was the father of sons and daughters.

2 Chronicles 24:3 Meaning and Commentary

2 Chronicles 24:3

And Jehoiada took for him two wives
Not for himself; he had a wife who was aunt to King Joash, and he had sons who were concerned with him in anointing him, ( 2 Chronicles 22:11 ) ( 23:11 ) and was now upwards of one hundred years of age; but for the king, when he was at an age fit for marriage, he advised him to marry, and proposed wives to him, whom he thought would be agreeable; for, observing what mischief was done both in church and state through Jehoram's marrying Athaliah, he was desirous of preventing any such disagreeable marriage; and as the young king was in all things guided and directed by him, so he was in this; and no doubt they were good women he pitched upon, and proposed to the king; one of them was Jehoadan, ( 2 Chronicles 25:1 ) , but the name of the other we know not:

and he begat sons and daughters;
how many is not said, nor do we read of the names of any of them, but of Amaziah who succeeded him.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

2 Chronicles 24:3 In-Context

1 Joash was seven years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem forty years. His mother’s name was Zibiah; she was from Beersheba.

2 Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the years of Jehoiada the priest.

3 Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.

4 Some time later Joash decided to restore the temple of the LORD.

5 He called together the priests and Levites and said to them, “Go to the towns of Judah and collect the money due annually from all Israel, to repair the temple of your God. Do it now.” But the Levites did not act at once.

2 Chronicles 24:3

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