Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 3:22-23 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Kings 3 in context

Scripture Focus

22And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

23Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

1 Kings 3:22-23

Biblical Context

Two women argue over a living son and a dead son. The king's test reveals the true mother as the one willing to give up the living child to save him.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this narrative, the two voices are not two strangers in a city but two states of consciousness contending within you. The living son is the state you desire to become true in your world—a harmony, a wholeness, a realization you refuse to let go. The dead son is the old identity or belief saying not now, not possible. Solomon's blade in the king's judgment is the precise cognitive test of discernment: when you ask, who owns the living state, the answer reveals the reality you actually hold. Notice the true mother is not the voice insisting on possession, but the one whose love for the child is greater than personal right. In your inner theater, that is the willingness to relinquish the old self for the sake of the new truth. When you adopt the attitude that the living state belongs to you now, the apparent impasse dissolves and the living child remains with you. The I AM, your awareness, does not divide; it recognizes unity and aligns all thoughts to the one living truth. Your imagination is the court; your assumption is the verdict; your feeling is the seal.