Verse 3

Jehoiada arranged for Joash to marry two wives, and he fathered sons and daughters.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 4:19 : 19 Lamech married two wives, one named Adah and the other Zillah.
  • Gen 21:21 : 21 While living in the wilderness of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
  • Gen 24:4 : 4 Instead, go to my country and my kindred to choose a wife for my son Isaac.
  • 2 Chr 24:15 : 15 Jehoiada grew old and lived a full life. He died at the age of one hundred and thirty years.
  • Matt 19:4-8 : 4 He answered, "Have you not read that the Creator, from the beginning, made them male and female?" 5 And he said, "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." 6 So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate. 7 They said to him, "Why then did Moses command that a certificate of divorce be given and the woman sent away?" 8 He said to them, "Moses allowed you to divorce your wives because of the hardness of your hearts, but it was not this way from the beginning."