Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 20:26-30 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

26And it came to pass at the return of the year, that Benhadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

27And the children of Israel were numbered, and were all present, and went against them: and the children of Israel pitched before them like two little flocks of kids; but the Syrians filled the country.

28And there came a man of God, and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith the LORD, Because the Syrians have said, The LORD is God of the hills, but he is not God of the valleys, therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thine hand, and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

29And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

30But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.

1 Kings 20:26-30

Biblical Context

Israel faces a numerically superior enemy. A man of God speaks that the Lord is God of both hills and valleys, promising deliverance that comes through aligned faith.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the text, the outer army is the theatre of your inner states; the Syrians are your fear-sized beliefs, insisting God is only for the high places. The 'man of God' is the inner faculty of guidance—the I AM—that declares the truth that the Lord is present in valleys as well as on hills. When the people seem few, like two little flocks, their faith is not in numbers but in the awareness that God is the controlling power. The seven-day standoff is the disciplined practice of remaining with that truth, letting imagination and feeling-sense stay fixed on the certainty of divine presence. The turning point—the hundred thousand fall, the wall’s collapse—shows how a belief that limited God dissolves under unwavering awareness. Deliverance then arrives as an inner realization: the I AM is the source of all events, and hence the mind's entire terrain becomes subject to the one power. The outward battle reflects your inward alignment with the Lord, and victory confirms what you already are.