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2 Chronicles 24:17-24 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 24 in context

Scripture Focus

17Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah, and made obeisance to the king. Then the king hearkened unto them.
18And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
19Yet he sent prophets to them, to bring them again unto the LORD; and they testified against them: but they would not give ear.
20And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
21And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD.
22Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon it, and require it.
23And it came to pass at the end of the year, that the host of Syria came up against him: and they came to Judah and Jerusalem, and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people, and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of Damascus.
24For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
2 Chronicles 24:17-24

Biblical Context

Jehoiada's death leads Judah's princes to bow to the king and abandon the LORD; judgment follows their trespass. Zechariah prophesies against this, is slain, and Syria's oppression shows the consequence of inner apostasy.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through Neville's lens, the narrative is not about a distant people but about the states of your own consciousness. The king is your fixed, outward-leaning thought that would rather bow to appearances than know the I AM within. Jehoiada's death signals the collapse of the inner discipline that keeps this pattern in check; the princes' obeisance to the king represents your habit of yielding to external authorities in place of inner truth. When the Spirit of God comes upon Zechariah, the inner voice speaks truth to power: a reminder that prosperity flows only where the commandments of the LORD are obeyed in awareness. Yet the crowd's rejection—stones hurled, the inner prophet murdered—points to the ego's refusal to hear, and to the ruin that follows when you abandon your sacred covenant with your own I AM. The invasion of a foreign power mirrors the outer results of an inner breach: you encounter trouble because you have forsaken the one presence that sustains you. Return to the covenant within; bring your heart back to the LORD; and prosperity becomes a natural outgrowth of steadfast awareness.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM as your sole allegiance now. Revise any sense of lack by stating, 'The LORD is my constant king; I prosper in His presence,' and feel that truth as real.

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