Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 7:1-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Kings 7 in context

Scripture Focus

1But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.

2He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

3And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.

4And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.

5And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.

6And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

7Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.

8And his house where he dwelt had another court within the porch, which was of the like work. Solomon made also an house for Pharaoh's daughter, whom he had taken to wife, like unto this porch.

9All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

10And the foundation was of costly stones, even great stones, stones of ten cubits, and stones of eight cubits.

11And above were costly stones, after the measures of hewed stones, and cedars.

12And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house of the LORD, and for the porch of the house.

1 Kings 7:1-12

Biblical Context

Solomon spends thirteen years building his own house and then completes a grand temple complex, including the cedar forest, porches, and courts, symbolizing outer form preparing for inner worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

Solomon's vast construction is not a record of stone alone but a picture of the mind at work. The house of the forest of Lebanon, the cedar beams, the three rows of light, and the porch of judgment reveal how your inner world is raised by deliberate acts of imagination. Each stone and cedar is a state of consciousness refined by attention; the outer courts are your daily thoughts and habits, built in careful order to support what is truly worship. The porch of judgment marks a turning point where you stop believing you are merely the doer of events and begin recognizing the I AM as the sole inventor of form. When the inner court mirrors the outer, you realize that holiness and separation are not about distance from the world, but about aligning appearance with the inner temple, so light enters in light after light. The completion of the temple occurs as you persist in the conviction that your inner sanctuary already exists in the present I AM, and your life will reflect it.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, assume you already stand inside the throne room of your mind, and feel the I AM pervading every corner; revise any sense of lack by silently declaring that the inner temple is complete now.