Neville Goddard on 2 Chronicles 4:6-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Chronicles 4 in context

Scripture Focus

6He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

7And he made ten candlesticks of gold according to their form, and set them in the temple, five on the right hand, and five on the left.

8He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.

2 Chronicles 4:6-8

Biblical Context

Solomon arranges the temple's vessels with symmetry: five lavers on the right and five on the left for cleansing. He also places ten gold candlesticks, ten tables, and a hundred gold basins, with the sea reserved for the priests' washing.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's psychology, the temple is your consciousness and every vessel is a state of being you inhabit. The ten lavers, split five on each side, are ten recurring acts of purification you perform with imagination—washing away fear, habit, and inherited limitation by choosing a different feeling and belief. The right and left arrangement signals the balance of attention you maintain; as you mentally dwell in a state, that side is your active choice and the opposite is the receptive attitude. When you 'wash in them,' you do not cleanse material vessels, you cleanse your inner dispositions. The sea set apart for the priests stands for the living water of I AM, flowing within to sustain life and dissolve impurity. The ten candlesticks of gold are the radiances of your thoughts, each flame a clear, defined perception where you stand in truth. The ten tables and hundred basins are daily patterns of nourishment and receptivity, held intact by your consistent assumption. Worship, here, is inward purity rather than outward ceremony.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you are the temple, with five cleansing states on each side. Then imagine the gold candlesticks lit, the tables ready, and the waters of I AM washing through you, making you feel already pure.