Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 30:7-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 30 in context

Scripture Focus

7And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

8And David enquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

9So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

10But David pursued, he and four hundred men: for two hundred abode behind, which were so faint that they could not go over the brook Besor.

11And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water;

12And they gave him a piece of a cake of figs, and two clusters of raisins: and when he had eaten, his spirit came again to him: for he had eaten no bread, nor drunk any water, three days and three nights.

13And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days agone I fell sick.

14We made an invasion upon the south of the Cherethites, and upon the coast which belongeth to Judah, and upon the south of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire.

15And David said to him, Canst thou bring me down to this company? And he said, Swear unto me by God, that thou wilt neither kill me, nor deliver me into the hands of my master, and I will bring thee down to this company.

1 Samuel 30:7-15

Biblical Context

David consults the LORD through the ephod and receives a clear command to pursue and recover all. He leads six hundred toward the goal, while two hundred falter and stay behind, then a revived prisoner aids the final turning toward the enemy.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage, David embodies the I AM, the steadfast awareness within you. The ephod is your instrument of inner revelation, through which you inquire the inner LORD and hear, 'Pursue: you shall surely overtake them, and recover all.' The division of the company mirrors the mind’s fluctuations—the two hundred lingering in fatigue versus the four hundred pressing forward by faith. The Egyptian servant, though a captive to fear, becomes a messenger when you nourish him with bread and water; nourishment here represents inner sustenance—truth, remembrance, and imaginative life that revive spirit. When David asks, 'To whom belongest thou?' he touches the sense of ownership your consciousness must claim: you are the one who can guide the way to your desired outcome. The oath, 'Swear unto me by God,' seals your commitment to the inner path. The moment of deliverance comes not from external force but from the alignment of your inner state with the divine directive to pursue and recover all.