Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 16:8-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

8In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

9And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

10And Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead.

11And it came to pass, when he began to reign, as soon as he sat on his throne, that he slew all the house of Baasha: he left him not one that pisseth against a wall, neither of his kinsfolks, nor of his friends.

12Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,

13For all the sins of Baasha, and the sins of Elah his son, by which they sinned, and by which they made Israel to sin, in provoking the LORD God of Israel to anger with their vanities.

14Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

15In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.

16And the people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp.

17And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.

18And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king's house, and burnt the king's house over him with fire, and died,

19For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight of the LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.

20Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and his treason that he wrought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

21Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.

22But the people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned.

1 Kings 16:8-22

Biblical Context

Zimri kills Elah and destroys Baasha's house, paving Omri's rise. Israel's split and Omri's eventual reign show a pattern of judgment tied to the people’s sins.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the names in the text stand for states of consciousness within you. Elah, Baasha, Zimri, Omri are inner dispositions contending for the throne of your awareness. Tirzah is that place in your mind where a belief sits and drinks of habit; the king’s house is the old identity you defend. Zimri’s coup is the mind’s sudden impulse to terminate an old pattern, even burning the palace of its old self. The LORD’s word spoken by Jehu the prophet is the inner law your awareness enforces when you refuse vanity. The destruction of Baasha's house signals that you can erase inherited fear-temperaments by abandoning the old sin-patterns. Omri's rise represents a new order of disciplined thought, a crown of stable decision. Israel's division mirrors the split in thought between two beliefs; yet Omri's reign shows that a higher inner arrangement can prevail when you align with I AM. So the outer history echoes your inner history: imagine and inhabit the reign you desire, and the world follows.