Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 25:3-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 25 in context

Scripture Focus

3Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established to him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

4But he slew not their children, but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses, where the LORD commanded, saying, The fathers shall not die for the children, neither shall the children die for the fathers, but every man shall die for his own sin.

5Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together, and made them captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, according to the houses of their fathers, throughout all Judah and Benjamin: and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three hundred thousand choice men, able to go forth to war, that could handle spear and shield.

6He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

2 Chronicles 25:3-6

Biblical Context

When the kingdom is established, Amaziah kills the king's servants who killed his father but spares their children, adhering to the law that each person dies for his own sin. He then gathers Judah’s forces and hires soldiers from Israel, forming a broader military.

Neville's Inner Vision

I see this chronicle as a page from the inner kingdom of my own mind. The 'kingdom' established to him signifies a new level of awareness that has taken root in me. The act of slaying the servants who killed the king represents the release of beliefs that dethrone my awareness—an inner cleansing that does not condemn the past generation. The law that 'the fathers shall not die for the children' is a clear reminder that each image, each thought, must bear its own consequences; I do not punish others in my mind to heal myself, I own my reactions and revise them. Amaziah’s assembling of captains—Judah and Benjamin—corresponds to marshaling the faculties of discernment and action within me. The hundred thousand mighty men from Israel for silver points to the temptation to seek power from external sources; but Neville teaches that true power comes from aligning with the I AM, the inner law, and acting from that alignment. When I maintain that inner alignment, the outer army falls into place as an expression of my transformed consciousness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the state of the awakened king. Repeat the present-tense revision: 'I am the kingdom established in my mind; old fears die in me, and I enact justice from within.' Then feel the sense of authority settle into your chest.