Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 31:1-2 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 31 in context

Scripture Focus

1Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

2And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents of the LORD.

2 Chronicles 31:1-2

Biblical Context

After the cleansing, Israel destroys the images and altars and returns to their cities. Hezekiah then arranges the priests and Levites to minister offerings, give thanks, and praise at the LORD’s gates.

Neville's Inner Vision

On the inner plane, when all this was finished, the people of consciousness move back to their own cities only after idols are broken. Here we learn that false images in the mind disappear when the I AM of awareness asserts itself. The breaking of images and groves is not a history lesson but a metaphor for clearing away beliefs that govern us from without. The gates of the tents of the LORD become the gates of your own mind where gratitude and praise reside. Hezekiah’s order to the priests and Levites is your inner reorganization: if you claim to worship, you must arrange the faculties of your mind so they serve offerings and thanks, not the appetite of ego. Peace offerings and burnt offerings speak of harmony between feeling and idea; you feel the truth of your inherent divinity and offer thanks in imagining that the inner worship is ongoing. As you choose to recognize the I AM and the imagination as one, your outer events align to reflect a purified inner atmosphere.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and, in imagination, shatter the inner idols—doubt, fear, limitation. Then appoint the priestly faculties within you to offer gratitude and praise, and feel the worship established at the gates of your consciousness.