Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 3:1-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1Then Solomon began to build the house of the LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

2And he began to build in the second day of the second month, in the fourth year of his reign.

3Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

4And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

5And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.

6And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.

8And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

2 Chronicles 3:1-8

Biblical Context

Solomon begins building the temple in Jerusalem, following precise measurements and covering the structure with gold. The construction culminates in a most holy sanctuary dedicated to God.

Neville's Inner Vision

Solomon’s temple is not a pile of gold and timber in a distant land; it is a symbol of your own inner sanctuary, built by the activity of your consciousness. The measurements, the gilding, the cherubim on the walls—all of it speaks of the progressive sanctification of space within. When you imagine the house of the LORD rising in your mind, you are not copying a building but you are rehearsing the act of awareness becoming tangible. The gold you see is the radiation of your true I AM, spiraling through beams, posts, and walls until every corner shines with divine substance. The most holy place is the I AM itself, the refuge where attention rests in the truth that you are God in expression. As you dwell there, wealth, provision, and beauty become the natural outcome of alignment, not chance. The outer world reflects the inner temple you guard with reverent focus. Practice this by standing in imagination: overlay your inner room with pure gold, engrave in your mind the presence of cherubim guarding your gates, and declare, 'I AM the Lord in my heart.'