2 Chronicles 24:3
Good News Translation
Jehoiada chose two wives for King Joash, and they bore him sons and daughters.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

100 years old when Joash began to reign.

2 Chronicles 24:15 But Joiada grew old and was full of days, and died when he was a hundred and thirty years old.

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

Genesis 24:4 But that thou go to my own country and kindred, and take a wife from thence for my son Isaac.

two wives

Genesis 4:19 Who took two wives: the name of the one was Ada, and the name of the other Sella.

Matthew 19:4-8 Who answering, said to them: Have ye not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: . . .

Context
Joash Repairs the Temple
2And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest. 3And Joiada took for him two wives, by whom he had sons and daughters.4After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 24:2
And he did that which is good before the Lord all the days of Joiada the priest.

2 Chronicles 24:4
After this Joas had a mind to repair the house of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 24:2
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