2 Chronicles 24:3

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?

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

24:3 Jehoiada chose two wives for Joash, probably to ensure that David’s royal line would be replenished with plenty of descendants.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Or, gave him two wives.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown — Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

(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.”

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

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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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.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

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).

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.

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

and he begot sons and daughters Because it says below (verse 25) that Joash slew the sons of Jehoiada, it was necessary to note that he had sons.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.