Chiasm
Judges 6:11–16
Judges 6:11–163 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 11-12 And there came an angel of the LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites. And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
- B 13 And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying,
- B' 15 And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
- A' 16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as one man.