Neville Goddard on 1 Kings 9:10-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Kings 9 in context

Scripture Focus

10And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,

11(Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

1 Kings 9:10-11

Biblical Context

Solomon finishes the two houses—God's house and the king's house—after twenty years, Hiram provides materials, and Solomon gifts twenty cities in Galilee.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within the story, the two houses symbolize your inner temples: the house of worship (the LORD) and the kingly power you exercise in life. The twenty years marks the patient cultivation of a stable state of consciousness; at their end, the imagination has prepared a living space where the I AM can dwell. Hiram's cedar, fir and gold are the rich imaginal provisions you bring into awareness—qualities and resources you once desired, now at hand to animate your world. Solomon's gift of twenty cities in Galilee becomes your act of allocating inner wealth into new provinces of experience—the ordinary realm you inhabit daily. This is not history but a psychological drama: the Kingdom of God within you, a ruling consciousness that can furnish every need and organize your life as temple and realm. When you accept the inner generosity and distribute it to fresh areas, you align subject and object; your outer world rearranges to reflect the interior order you have assumed.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and assume you are the king who has completed the two inner houses. Feel Hiram's gifts arriving as ready energy, then imagine yourself gifting twenty inner cities to a new area of life, feeling the state as already realized.