Jehoshaphat’s reaction fits perfectly not only the circumstances but his own character as portrayed in our context; both he and ‘all Judah’ fall down, bowing themselves before the Lord, an act which the Levites accompany with a united voice of thanksgiving. The whole structure is a perfect chiastic conclusion to the scene begun in v. 14: there Jahaziel the Levite/ singer stands up in the crowd to address ‘all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem’, and the king; here, the response follows the opposite order with precisely the same participants, defined in precisely the same terms: first the
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