Inner Covenant Restores Lost Cities

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the verse is an inner transaction, not a political treaty. The cities Ben-Hadad promises to restore are your inner towns—loyalties, fears, loves, capacities—that you once allowed to be seized by circumstance. The promise to restore mirrors your capacity to retake ownership of your inner landscape. When Ahab says, 'I will send thee away with this covenant,' he is signing a mental treaty that the past loss is reconciled and placed under a new order. The covenant is not between rulers but between the two selves within you—the self that feels deprived and the self that remembers abundance. By consenting to the covenant, you release the old transaction and invite a new one: streets in Damascus—fresh channels of energy flowing through your life as evidence of inner order. Providence moves as you hold the certainty that this covenant is done in imagination; the outer scene aligns with that inner decree, and you find your life rearranged to reflect the healed city at peace.