Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 27:1-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 27 in context

Scripture Focus

1Jotham was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. His mother's name also was Jerushah, the daughter of Zadok.

2And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.

3He built the high gate of the house of the LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.

4Moreover he built cities in the mountains of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

5He fought also with the king of the Ammonites, and prevailed against them. And the children of Ammon gave him the same year an hundred talents of silver, and ten thousand measures of wheat, and ten thousand of barley. So much did the children of Ammon pay unto him, both the second year, and the third.

6So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the LORD his God.

7Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2 Chronicles 27:1-7

Biblical Context

Jotham reigned 16 years, doing right in the LORD’s sight, building gates, walls, and cities, and defeating Ammon; he grew mighty by preparing his ways before God, while the people persisted in corruption.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jotham’s reign is not about temple ritual but about the inner discipline that makes a king of consciousness. The outer projects—gates, walls, cities, towers, battles, and tribute—are vivid images of a mind that has consciously prepared its way before the LORD. In Neville’s terms, Jotham’s fidelity to the higher I AM is an inner act of alignment: a maintained state of awareness that meets every challenge from a settled sense of being. He did right in the sight of the LORD, yet he did not seek the temple; this hints that the true temple is the inner sanctuary of awareness. When you decide to prepare your ways before God, you become mighty, not by force but by the thoroughness of your inner assumptions, the consistent image of yourself acting in harmony with divine law. The Ammonites and their tribute illustrate conditions that yield to an inner conviction. The phrase 'book of the kings' is your memory of the right state, accessible whenever you revise. Your inner architecture—gates, walls, towers—are forms of disciplined imagination that guard the realized state.

Practice This Now

Assume the state, 'I have prepared my ways before the LORD today.' Feel this inner readiness, and in imagination build a gate or tower as a symbol of your prepared mind.