Azel's Inner Lineage Within

1 Chronicles 8:33-38 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 1 Chronicles 8 in context

Scripture Focus

33And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Eshbaal.
34And the son of Jonathan was Meribbaal; and Meribbaal begat Micah.
35And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.
36And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,
37And Moza begat Binea: Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son:
38And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan. All these were the sons of Azel.
1 Chronicles 8:33-38

Biblical Context

The verses trace a lineage from Ner to Azel and his six sons, outlining a stable line of kin and community. In Neville's sense, this genealogy becomes a map of inner states that sustain unity and dignity within consciousness.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, the names are not merely people but states of consciousness moving within you. Ner is the root awareness that births Kish, and Kish births Saul, and Saul births Jonathan and the others—the succession of inner dispositions that govern your sense of self. Each generation is an inner movement: authority (Kish), rulership (Saul), companionship (Jonathan), and the rest appearing as channels through which life flows. Azel, at the end of the line, holds six sons—Azrikam, Bocheru, Ishmael, Sheariah, Obadiah, and Hanan—symbolizing the six faculties or tendencies you can steward. Far from a distant genealogy, the passage invites you to notice how your inner kinship shapes your outer world. When you believe that the One I AM is the source of all your relations, you align these states into a unified community within you. The lineage becomes a living assurance that your dignity and unity are not earned from without but realized inwardly by attention and imaginative assumption.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and trace Ner to Azel in your mind, letting each generation symbolize an inner quality you wish to embody. Assume the unity now: I AM the source of all my kin; feel it-real as the one life animating every aspect of you.

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