Chiasm
1 Kings 19
1 Kings 193 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1-3 Jezebel's threat; Elijah flees to Beersheba and left his servant there
- B 4-8 Elijah's journey into the wilderness, fasting, divine provision, forty-day journey to Horeb
- C 9-10 Elijah enters a cave; God asks What doest thou here, Elijah?; Elijah's complaint about Israel's apostasy
- D 11-12 Central pivot - God's manifestations: wind, earthquake, fire, then still small voice
- C' 13-14 Elijah exits the cave; God repeats What doest thou here, Elijah?; identical complaint repeated
- C 9-10 Elijah enters a cave; God asks What doest thou here, Elijah?; Elijah's complaint about Israel's apostasy
- B' 15-18 God commands Elijah to return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus; commissioning three successors
- B 4-8 Elijah's journey into the wilderness, fasting, divine provision, forty-day journey to Horeb
- A' 19-21 Elijah finds Elisha; Elisha leaves his oxen and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him