This is the Bible Book Club. I'm Susan and I'm Heather. And we're in the book of Second Samuel.

Welcome to the club.

Last time in Second Samuel chapters 22 and 23, we discussed the focal point of the chiastic end to 2nd Samuel.

We also discussed how Hannah's song at the beginning of 1st Samuel was tied to David's song

at the end of 2nd Samuel.

They were bookends.

One pointed forward to what God will do in the future, and one celebrated what God

had done looking back to the past.

The song can be found twice in the Bible in 2nd Samuel and in Psalm 18.

The highlight of the song is that God is the rock who saves.

David's final words are short, but cover a lot of ground.

They point back to Genesis and they point us towards Christ in the New Testament.

Now, if only the books of Samuel ended there after David's final words, it would be a really

kind of beautiful ending. It's a great place to end. But he didn't end there. There is more,

and it's anticlimactic for the books of Samuel. However, it is an intriguing link to the future

for Christ and our redemption. I recall that the author is writing the final chapters in a

chayasm, as Heather said, which is a literary structure where themes mirror each other in an

inverted pattern. The focus is on the center of the

kaiasm. And we have discussed the first four steps of the kiasm now, including that center.

The first step was Saul causes a famine. Then we covered David's mighty warriors. Then the metal,

the focus, David's final song and David's final words.

In this episode, we will close the chiasm with David's mighty warriors, again, mirroring what we already discussed.

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