Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 4:2-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 4 in context

Scripture Focus

2Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

3And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.

4It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.

5And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

2 Chronicles 4:2-5

Biblical Context

The passage describes a large, round molten sea ten cubits across and five cubits high, standing on twelve oxen with lilies on its brim, and capable of holding three thousand baths. It sits as a designed vessel within the temple imagery.

Neville's Inner Vision

Viewed through the Neville lens, the molten sea is not a distant object but an image of your own state of consciousness. It is a vast circular reservoir formed by awareness, its ten-cubit diameter and five-cubit height signaling the reach and depth of your present attention. The line of thirty cubits circling it marks the boundary you accept in imagination, a line you can shift by a single inner decree. Beneath it, the oxen are the twelve faculties you employ to support and circulate your life in every direction—north, south, east, west—so that your entire being upholds the image. The fact that the sea rests on them, and that its brim bears lilies, suggests that beauty, purity, and abundance spring from a right inner posture: still, holy, and awake. The three thousand baths symbolize the spaciousness you can hold when you affirm that the I AM is always present as the governing reality of your experience. This is not a relic of ritual; it is an inner architecture you can enter any moment by assuming the desired state and feeling it real now.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and imagine the molten sea within you; see it full, circle your awareness, and let the image circulate in every direction. Repeat silently, I AM, this is mine, and feel the fullness as real now.