Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 3:1 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Kings 3 in context

Scripture Focus

1And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house of the LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.

1 Kings 3:1

Biblical Context

Solomon forms an affinity with Pharaoh and begins building both his own house and the house of the LORD, symbolizing how the mind negotiates outer power and inner devotion.

Neville's Inner Vision

Remember, this story is not about a king in antiquity but about states of consciousness within you. Solomon’s affinity with Pharaoh embodies the mind’s impulse to seek security in outer powers—political alliances, status, and the glamour of worldly walls. The city of David and the house of the LORD are inner and outer temples coexisting in your life; to build one without the other is to pretend you are a kingdom divided. When Solomon takes Pharaoh’s daughter into Jerusalem, it signals how an imagined future can inhabit the heart’s stronghold, enlarging the ego’s realm while the spiritual center is invited to become a mere ornament. Yet the verse also reveals a flicker of alignment: the building activity is not only about ambition but about establishing an ordered place where the I AM can dwell. The true Kingdom of God grows as your imagination remains aware that you are that I AM, and every brick—inner or outer—moves by the creative act of consciousness. If you revise the scene now, you let your temple be the rule, not the exception, of your days.