Search Scripture daily! (Acts 17:11).
This website has been set up to encourage personal Bible discovery by paying attention to the literary structure of Scripture and the flow of thought. Look out for chiasms in daily Bible reading – and after that compare with what others have proposed.
All proposals made here should be considered as provisional and may be subject to modification as we learn more. (Posts marked with an * make some reference to an academic work directly or indirectly in the posts or comments).
The website also includes tables on Bible Echoes.
This blog is supported by Jered Bolton – https://notjustcode.co.uk/
The contributions to this blog have come in the main from those of us who are following the Bible Companion bible reading planner – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Companion which covers the Old Testament once and the New Testament twice in a year, To a large extent this explains the sequence of scripture passages as they have appeared. http://www.thisisyourbible.com/mumbles.
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New Bible study tool
http://www.the-boltons.co.uk/ss/
“Whilst it’s easy to find the root of a given word, it’s rather tricky to go in the opposite direction and find words that stem from a given word. This utility searches for words in the other direction “.
What a joy to come across this site! I would love to contribute a few of my own chiastic discoveries. Can that be done by simply placing them in the comment box or is there a more elegant process?
Isaiah 2:1-22
A) Isaiah 2:1-2a – Prophecy that the House of the Lord will be exalted among the nations
• Adonai’s house at the top of the mountains
• Adonai’s house exalted above the hills
B) Isaiah 2:2b-3 – People will flow to and go to the mountain of the house of Adonai
C) Isaiah 2:4 – They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks
D) Isaiah 2:5 – An admonition for Israel to walk in Adonai’s light
X) Isaiah 2:6-10 – Israel walking in the Eastern ways/counsel of the Nations trusting in the arm of the flesh and idols
B) Isaiah 2:10 – People will enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from the terror of the Lord and the glory of His majesty.
A’) Isaiah 2:11-18 – Adonai’s Exaltation Versus Man’s Humiliation
• The lofty looks of man shall be humbled
• The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down
• And the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day
• Upon everything lifted up and it shall be brought low
• The loftiness of man shall be bowed down
• And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low
• The Lord alone will be exalted in that day
B’) Isaiah 2:19a – People will go into the holes of the rocks
C’) Isaiah 2:20 – In that day a man will cast away his idols of silver and his idols of gold
B’) Isaiah 2:21 – People will go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the crags of the rugged rocks
D’) Isaiah 2:22 – An Admonition to sever yourselves from such a man, whose breath is in his nostrils; For of what account is he?