Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 36:1-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 36 in context

Scripture Focus

1Then the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and made him king in his father's stead in Jerusalem.

2Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.

3And the king of Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, and condemned the land in an hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

4And the king of Egypt made Eliakim his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name to Jehoiakim. And Necho took Jehoahaz his brother, and carried him to Egypt.

5Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD his God.

6Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

7Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of the LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:1-7

Biblical Context

Jehoahaz briefly rules in Jerusalem under Egyptian control; his reign is followed by his brother Jehoiakim's longer rule, which is judged evil, and Nebuchadnezzar's conquest that takes him captive and removes temple vessels to Babylon.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the eye of faith, these pages are not about cities and kings but about your own inner government. Jehoahaz, a youthful ruler standing in Jerusalem, represents a first impression of control that slips away as a stronger power—the Egyptian impulse—asserts itself. His short reign signals how swiftly a state of consciousness can be displaced when fear or habit claims the throne. The substitution of Eliakim’s name as Jehoiakim is the psyche's attempt to reform outward behavior while refusing to recondition the inner state; it is still the same consciousness, merely renamed, still under captive authority. Jehoiakim’s eleven years, marked as evil in the sight of the LORD, points to a persistent alignment with a wrong inner policy—an awareness that resists true surrender to the I AM. Then Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, comes as a harsher discipline, binding the king and carrying away the vessels of the LORD to Babylon. This is the inner displacement of sacred faculties under pressure, yet not their destruction. The sacred is not erased; it is pressed to exile and awaits reclaiming by the awakened I AM. Your task is to recognize these movements as yours—you are the author of every inner king; you can revise.

Practice This Now

Assume the inner king now rules in peace: 'I AM the ruler of my inner Jerusalem.' Then feel it-real by breathing into the conviction that outer pressures invite you to reclaim the sacred vessels of awareness.