Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 36:17-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 36 in context

Scripture Focus

17Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldees, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand.

18And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.

19And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.

2 Chronicles 36:17-19

Biblical Context

The verses describe Babylonian forces killing the young and old, seizing temple treasures, and burning Jerusalem’s temple and walls. It records the destruction of sanctuary, city, and sacred vessels.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville’s economy of mind, the outer ruin signifies an inner state that has grown rigid and identified with fear. The king of the Chaldees stands for a belief that has conquered awareness, until you surrender the sanctuary of your mind to that belief. When the holy vessels—your dreams, values, and powers—are taken and the temple burned, you experience loss, not as punishment, but as a cleansing of old identity. The burning away is the ashes from which you may rebuild. You are invited to reverse this by affirming the I AM as sovereign of your inner city here and now: call back the sacred vessels, rewrite memory, and reassemble a temple of consciousness from which new life can emerge. With imagination as the bricks and the feeling of I AM as the mortar, you can reconstruct your inner Jerusalem, not by warring with circumstances, but by transforming your state of consciousness from within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Close your eyes, declare 'I AM' as the ruler of your inner temple, and visualize gathering the sacred vessels from Babylon back into the sanctuary; then feel the inner city being rebuilt in peace.