John Gill's Exposition on 2 Chronicles 24:3

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And Jehoiada took for him two wives, etc.] Not for himself; he had a wife who was aunt to King Joash, and he had sons who were concerned with him in anointing him, (<142211>2 Chronicles 22:11 23:11) and was now upwards of one hundred years of age; but for the king, when he was at an age fit for marriage, he advised him to marry, and proposed wives to him, whom he thought would be agreeable; for, observing what mischief was done both in church and state through Jehoram’s marrying Athaliah, he was desirous of preventing any such disagreeable marriage; and as the young king was in all things guided and directed by him, so he was in this; and no doubt they were good women he pitched upon, and proposed to the king; one of them was Jehoadan, (<142501>2 Chronicles 25:1), but the name of the other we know not: and he begat sons and daughters; how many is not said, nor do we read of the names of any of them, but of Amaziah who succeeded him.

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