3And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he begat sons and daughters.
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And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
But thou shalt go unto my country, and to my kindred, and take a wife unto my son Isaac.
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, …
And he dwelt in the wilderness of Paran: and his mother took him a wife out of the land of Egypt.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)This account of Joash’s good beginnings we had as it stands here 2 Kgs. 12:1-21, though the latter part of this chapter, concerning his apostasy, we had little of there. What is good in men we should take all occasions to speak of and often repeat it; what is evil we should make mention of but sparingly, and no more than is needful. We shall here only observe, 1. That it is a happy thing for young…
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