2 Chronicles 24:3
New International Version
Jehoiada chose two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.

New Living Translation
Jehoiada chose two wives for Joash, and he had sons and daughters.

English Standard Version
Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

Berean Standard Bible
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

King James Bible
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

New King James Version
And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he had sons and daughters.

New American Standard Bible
Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters.

NASB 1995
Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

NASB 1977
And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Legacy Standard Bible
And Jehoiada took up two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Amplified Bible
Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he fathered sons and daughters.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Jehoiada acquired two wives for him, and he was the father of sons and daughters.

American Standard Version
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Yawida took two wives for himself and begot sons and daughters for himself.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Jodae took to himself two wives, and they bore sons and daughters.

Contemporary English Version
Jehoiada even chose two women for Joash to marry so he could have a family.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.

English Revised Version
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Jehoiada got Joash two wives, and Joash had sons and daughters.

Good News Translation
Jehoiada chose two wives for King Joash, and they bore him sons and daughters.

International Standard Version
who found two wives for him, so he fathered sons and daughters.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begot sons and daughters.

Literal Standard Version
And Jehoiada takes two wives for him, and he begets sons and daughters.

Majority Standard Bible
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.

New American Bible
Jehoiada provided him with two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

NET Bible
Jehoiada chose two wives for him who gave him sons and daughters.

New Revised Standard Version
Jehoiada got two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

New Heart English Bible
Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.

World English Bible
Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he became the father of sons and daughters.

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehoiada taketh for him two wives, and he begetteth sons and daughters.

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Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
2And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest. 3Jehoiada took for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters. 4Some time later, Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.…

Cross References
2 Chronicles 24:2
And Joash did what was right in the eyes of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

2 Chronicles 24:4
Some time later, Joash set his heart on repairing the house of the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

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

2 Chronicles 24:15
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.

Genesis 21:21
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.

Genesis 24:4
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.

two wives

Genesis 4:19
And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Matthew 19:4-8
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, …

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2 Chronicles 24
1. Joash reigns well all the days of Jehoiada
4. He gives order for the repair of the temple
15. Jehoiada's death and honorable burial
17. Joash, falling into idolatry, slays Zechariah the son of Jehoiada
23. Joash is spoiled by the Syrians, and slain by Zabad and Jehozabad
27. Amaziah succeeds him














(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 2Kings 12:4 : "Only the high places were not taken away; the people were still wont to sacrifice and burn incense on the high places."

Verse 3. - 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 (2 Chronicles 22:10). Our 2 Chronicles 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 (1 Kings 11:3) and that of others of the kings of both Judah and Israel.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Jehoiada
יְהוֹיָדָ֖ע (yə·hō·w·yā·ḏā‘)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3077: Jehoiada -- 'the LORD knows', the name of several Israelites

took
וַיִּשָּׂא־ (way·yiś·śā-)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

for himself
ל֥וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

two
שְׁתָּ֑יִם (šə·tā·yim)
Number - fd
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)

wives,
נָשִׁ֣ים (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

and he had
וַיּ֖וֹלֶד (way·yō·w·leḏ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

sons
בָּנִ֥ים (bā·nîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1121: A son

and daughters.
וּבָנֽוֹת׃ (ū·ḇā·nō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1323: A daughter


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