Chiasm

1 Chronicles 15:1–15

1 Chronicles 15:1–152 matched frames1 pivot

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

A 1 David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God
- B 2 None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites
  - B' 2 the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God, and to minister unto him for ever
- A' 3 David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it
A'' 4-10 Lists of Levite families (Kohath, Merari, Gershom, Elizaphan, Hebron, Uzziel)
- B 11-12 priests, and for the Levites...sanctify yourselves...bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel
  - C 13 because ye did it not at the first, the Lord our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order
- B' 14 priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel
A' 15 children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded

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