Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 4:3-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 4 in context

Scripture Focus

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 4:3-5

Biblical Context

Verse 4:3-5 describes a bronze sea resting on twelve oxen, encircled by oxen, with a brim of lilies, and capable of holding three thousand baths. The image declares holiness, order, and a divine presence in worship.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the symbols in this passage speak of your inner state. The molten sea is not a container of water in the desert of history; it is the vastness of your own consciousness in which every experience of life is held. The twelve oxen beneath the sea are anchors of awareness, the twelve directions of perception through which you stand and observe. The ten oxen around the circumference, within a cubit, remind you that your momentary sense of reality is shaped by your imagined boundaries—yet they are oxen, not walls: you assigned them to support your expanded state. The brim with lilies marks a holy boundary, a purified form of operation appropriate to true worship: the I AM present, not external ritual, governs the flow. And the measure—three thousand baths—speaks of abundance that your state can contain when you dwell in awareness. To Neville, this is a map of your mental anatomy: you can revise your state, assume the feeling of the presence, and let imagination birth the actual.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and assume you are already in the Presence; feel the sea fill your life as abundance. Repeat: I AM that I AM, and let the imagined scene become your real experience.