David's Deliverance Song in Brickwork — 2 Samuel 22
וַיְדַבֵּר דָּוִד
What to look for
David's great song of rescue — 'YHVH is my rock and my fortress' — written in the special interleaved song layout.
What it is
The third of the brickwork songs, sung 'on the day YHVH delivered him from all his enemies and from Saul.'
Why it matters
Nearly the same song appears as Psalm 18 in ordinary poetic lines — making this pair the clearest window into how layout itself was a scribal choice carrying meaning.
How it has been understood
Why brickwork here and plain lines in the Psalter? One suggestion: in Samuel the song is history — a wall of testimony built from a life of rescues — while in Psalms it becomes every worshiper's prayer. Same words, two garments; the manuscripts preserve both.