While II Kings 12.2 [MT 3] describes Joash as doing ‘what was right in the eyes of the Lord all his days because Jehoiada the priest instructed him’, the Chronicler makes this final clause a reservation: Joash indeed did what was right, but only ‘all the days of Jehoiada the priest’. With this minor orthographic change (ymyw/ymy), the foundation is laid for the different periodization of the reign of Joash.
