God’s response to Jehoshaphat’s prayer was immediate and startling. A voice was heard crying from the body of the assembly: ‘Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jahaziel … a Levite and descendant of Asaph, as he stood in the assembly’ (20:14). Although Jahaziel had an honourable lineage that entitled him to serve in the temple, there was nothing that distinguished him from the other Levites. He was standing with everyone else as Jehoshaphat prayed. He was not a great
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