Neville Goddard on 1 Samuel 31:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 1 Samuel 31 in context

Scripture Focus

4Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.

5And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.

6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.

1 Samuel 31:4-6

Biblical Context

Saul, driven by fear of external enemies, asks his armor-bearer to kill him; the bearer refuses; Saul kills himself, and with him his sons and his army, that day.

Neville's Inner Vision

Saul represents a consciousness clinging to external threats for its identity. The armor-bearer is the Sentry of reason that balks, afraid to act against the 'uncircumcised' problem outside. The sword Saul takes is the decision formed in the furnace of fear—an act to end the drama rather than transform it. When the armor-bearer refuses to strike, fear becomes paralysis; when Saul yields, he dies, not by enemy hands but by the misdirected life within his own conviction. The next scene, the armor-bearer dying, and Saul's army perishing, mirrors what happens when you consent to a narrative of doom on the inner stage: the entire inner kingdom collapses. Neville's teaching asks you to reinterpret such events as states of consciousness: you are the I AM; you can revise any scene by assuming a different outcome, by feeling the end of limitation before the event occurs. In this light, the 'enemy' is simply a belief about lack, and 'you' are the sovereign king who can awaken the kingdom by choosing a new inner state here and now.