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Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge on 2 Chronicles 24:3

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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took for him: Not for himself, as the Jewish expositors suppose, but for Joash; for Jehoiada's advanced age renders it highly improbable that he should take them for himself. He was born in the reign of Solomon, and lived through six successive reigns; and must, on any computation, have been upwards of 100 years old when Joash began to reign. Ch2 24:15; Gen 21:21, Gen 24:4 two wives: Gen 4:19; Mat 19:4-8 2 Chronicles 24:4
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