And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
This account of Joash's good beginnings we had as it stands here Kg2 12:1, etc., though the latter part of this chapter, concerning his apostasy, we had little of there. What is good in men we should…
2Ch 24:1-3 (2Ki 11:21 to 2Ki 12:3). Joash begins to Reign
3. And Jehoiada, etc.] This ver. is not in Kings. It was the duty of a Jewish father to provide his son with a wife; Jehoiada standing in loco…
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