Joash
Joash took the throne in Jerusalem at
the age of seven, and He reigned as a godly king for forty years (II Chronicles
24:1). The reason for this was that the priest Jehoiada had taken him under his
wing. The Scriptures says that he “did that which was RIGHT in the
sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest” (II
Chronicles 24:2).
Interestingly, the one specific
thing mentioned in the next verse about Jehoiada’s godly influence over Joash
was that he (as a proxy father) provided the king with “two wives”—and it
was in this context that King Joash “did that which was right in the sight
of the LORD.”
And Joash did
that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the days of Jehoiada the
priest. And Jehoiada took for him two wives; and he began sons and
daughters (II Chronicles 24:1-3).
Having multiple wives is clearly “right
in the sight of the Lord!” (Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr., The Great Omission:
Christendom’s Abandonment of the Biblical Family—A Plea for the Return to Polygamy
[Windber, Pa.: Patriarch Publishing House, 2010], 40-41)
