Chiasm
Acts 07:41–50
Acts 07:41–506 matched frames1 pivot
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.
- B 42a Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
- C 42b as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
- D 43a Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them:
- E 43b and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
- F 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
- G 45a Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles,
- F' 45b whom God drave out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;
- F 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness, as he had appointed, speaking unto Moses, that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen.
- E' 46 Who found favour before God, and desired to find a tabernacle for the God of Jacob.
- E 43b and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.
- D' 47 But Solomon built him an house.
- D 43a Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them:
- C' 48 Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,
- C 42b as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?
- B' 49 Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?
- B 42a Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven;
- A' 50 Hath not my hand made all these things?