Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 3:1-3 - 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.

2Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the LORD, until those days.

3And Solomon loved the LORD, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

1 Kings 3:1-3

Biblical Context

Solomon forms an alliance with Pharaoh and begins building both his own house and the LORD's temple, while the people worship at high places because there is no dedicated temple yet. He loves the LORD and walks in David's statutes, but still sacrifices at high places.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner map reads 1 Kings 3:1-3 as the mind negotiating with outward powers and appearances. The two buildings—Solomon's house and the house of the LORD—represent competing attentions within you: outward success and a sanctuary for divine awareness. Until the inner sanctuary is established for the name of the LORD, worship leaks into high places—habits of devotion performed where the heart is not fully present. Solomon's love for the LORD and his fidelity to David's statutes reveal a genuine longing for alignment with divine law, yet the persistence of high-place sacrifice exposes a divided altar. The healing path is to re-vision the inner state: affirm that the I AM is sovereign over every realm of life, and that the temple within is complete now. Treat all rituals as the expression of a single temple of awareness. When you order your mind as the dwelling place of God, the outer world will follow suit, and the high places will dissolve into one sacred, continuous worship.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, and in the silence revise one lingering habit by declaring: 'This desire is now offered in the temple of I AM.' Feel it real as you center your consciousness in the inner temple.