Neville Goddard on 1 Chronicles 20:3 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Chronicles 20 in context

Scripture Focus

3And he brought out the people that were in it, and cut them with saws, and with harrows of iron, and with axes. Even so dealt David with all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned to Jerusalem.

1 Chronicles 20:3

Biblical Context

David brings out the people and cuts them with saws, harrows of iron, and axes, executing those in the Ammonite cities. After this brutal judgment, David and all the people return to Jerusalem.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the inner kingdom, the 'people' are your scattered states of consciousness—fear, anger, doubt, self-importance—things you permit to inhabit your inner landscape. The verse speaks of 'cutting' them with saws and harrows of iron, but in this light those instruments are the tools of awareness you wield when you decide not to feed those old images any longer. The 'cities of the children of Ammon' are the chambers of the heart and mind where these tendencies have found a residence. By making a decisive, unflinching cut, you separate the living from the dead wood of former beliefs, pulling away the power they once held. The 'return to Jerusalem' is your return to a state of wholeness, the realization that the Kingdom of God resides in the I AM, here and now. This is not vengeance but a discipline that clears space for your true identity to shine. As you align with the I AM, you release the memory of past judgments and let your present awareness govern all acts.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, picture a stubborn belief and say, I AM the ruler here; then mentally 'cut' it away with a decisive focus, feel its removal, and dwell in the sense of the Kingdom within.