Suggested in http://place.asburyseminary.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1440&context=asburyjournal,  E E Carpenter, 1987

A. Spokesmen for Yahweh’s community: judges (16:18-20)

B. Things detestable to Yahweh (16:21-17:7)

C. Priests and Levites (17:8-13)

D. The King (17:14-20)

C’. Priests and Levites (18:1-8)

B’. Things detestable to Yahweh (18:9-13)

A’. Spokesmen for Yahweh’s community: prophets (18:14-22)