Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 31:17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 31 in context

Scripture Focus

17Both to the genealogy of the priests by the house of their fathers, and the Levites from twenty years old and upward, in their charges by their courses;

2 Chronicles 31:17

Biblical Context

It records the organized assignment of priestly genealogy and Levites to their appointed duties. Their age threshold signals readiness for service.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, the genealogy and the twenty-year-old mark are not external schedules but the inner architecture of your being. The house of their fathers represents the line of consciousness you accept as your own birthright; the Levites, those faculties devoted to order and worship, are the aspects of you that must be matured and set in their courses by imagination. When you accept that you are the one who assigns stations in your inner temple, you realize that 'service' is not a duty to be performed by others, but a state you enter. You consciously appoint each function to its path, and by that inner arrangement your outer world aligns. The I AM within you does not struggle with chaos; it questions, arranges, and enforces peace by imagining a law of order. The age 'twenty and upward' becomes a symbol of readiness: you have grown into the maturity to govern your inner forces to the highest use. So the verse invites you to claim responsibility for your inner house, to honor dignity of every faculty, and to let your life reflect that sacred organization.

Practice This Now

Sit in quiet and imagine a council of inner priests and Levites, each in its own charge. Assume, 'I am the conductor of my inner temple; I assign every faculty to its right course,' and feel the order as already established.