| 2. Linguistic Exegesis The narrative opens with the vav-consecutive vayya'as {וַיַּ֧עַשׂ | wəyyăʿaś} ‘and he did’, marking sequence. The subject yōʾāš {יוֹאָ֛שׁ | yōʾāš} ‘Joash’ follows the verb in typical Hebrew VSO order. The adjective hayyāšār {הַיָּשָׁ֖ר | hayyāšār} ‘the right’ functions as a complement describing moral quality. The idiom bəʿêyĕnê Yəhōwāh {בְּעֵינֵי יְהוָה | bəʿêyĕnê Yəhōwāh} ‘in the eyes of the LORD’ conveys divine evaluation. The temporal phrase kāl-yəmē Yəhôyāḏāʿ hakkōhēn {כָּל־יְמֵי יְהוֹיָדָע הַכֹּהֵן | kāl-yəmē Yəhôyāḏāʿ hakkōhēn} ‘all the days of Jehoiada the priest’ defines duration, with the noun “priest” displaced to the end in Hebrew for emphasis but rendered naturally in English. |