| 12. Linguistic Exegesis The verse opens with the third-person pronoun hu {הוּא | hūʾ} ‘he’ followed by the Qal imperfect verb yivne {יִבְנֶה | yivneh} ‘will build’, indicating future divine agency. The vav-consecutive perfect in ve-kô-nan-tî {וְכֹנַנְתִּי | və-kô-nan-tî} ‘and I will establish’ introduces the assured covenant response. The direct object marker ʾet {אֶת | ʾet} highlights kisʾô {כִּסְא֖וֹ | kisʾô} ‘his throne’ as the focus of divine establishment. The prepositional phrase ʿad ʿôlām {עַד־עוֹלָֽם | ʿad ʿôlām} ‘until forever’ functions as an adverbial of duration, expressing unbounded scope. Hebrew VSO order is rendered as English SVO order while preserving the parallelism and theological emphasis on divine promise. |