Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 34:3-4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 34 in context

Scripture Focus

3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

4And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

2 Chronicles 34:3-4

Biblical Context

Josiah begins to seek the God of David while young, and by the twelfth year he purges Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, groves, and carved or molten images. He breaks down the altars of Baalim and scatters the dust on the graves of those who sacrificed to them.

Neville's Inner Vision

All those temples built outside of you are not places but states of consciousness you have accepted as real. When you, like Josiah, begin to seek the God of David within, your inner temple rearranges itself. The purge is an inner revision: you refuse to feed any image or belief that supports fear, lack, or limitation. The altars of Baalim, the groves, the carved images, and the molten images are the pictures you have kept in memory as real. By breaking them in imagination and scattering their dust on the graves of those sacrifices to them, you seal a change in your consciousness. What Josiah did outwardly is the visible sign of an inner reality—when you truly decide God is your one presence, your world must align with that state. Your present experiences reflect the God-state you assume within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: In stillness, declare 'I AM the God within,' and revise one limiting belief until it collapses into nothingness. See yourself as Josiah breaking the old idols in mind and feel the dust falling away, symbolically purging past sacrifices.