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Chiasm

2 Samuel 16:7–8

2 Samuel 16:7–83 matched frames

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

  • A 7 Come out, come out, thou bloody man,
    • B 7 and thou man of Belial:
      • C 8 The LORD hath returned upon thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned;
      • C' 8 and the LORD hath delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom thy son:
    • B' 8 and, behold, thou art taken in thy mischief,
  • A' 8 because thou art a bloody man.
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