2 Chr 24:3

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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.

2Chr 24:15; Gen 21:21; Gen 24:4

two wives.

Gen 4:19; Matt 19:4-8