Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 13:18-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 13 in context

Scripture Focus

18And he said, Take the arrows. And he took them. And he said unto the king of Israel, Smite upon the ground. And he smote thrice, and stayed.

19And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

2 Kings 13:18-19

Biblical Context

The prophet commands the king to strike the ground with arrows; he does so three times and stops. The speaker declares that fuller, bolder action would have destroyed Syria, while the partial effort yields only partial victory.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture the scene as the inner man addressing outer circumstance. The arrows are thoughts you cast into action; the ground is the field of your life; the number of blows shows the degree of your inner conviction. When the king smote thrice and paused, he revealed a mind content with partial success, a faith measuring outcomes by habit rather than possibility. The man of God—the inner oracle of your higher self—is not angry for the moment, but for the lesson: you cannot command the army of your world with a half-hearted, limited belief. You must press belief to its full intensity, until the imagined result dissolves the outer situation. The Syria of your life stands for the pattern you have accepted as real; it represents the limitation born of under-assurance. The message is: if you would have victory complete, you must feed your assumption with five, six, or more diligent blows. When you finally believe with total fervor, the outer world bends to your inner decree, for imagination creates reality.

Practice This Now

Practice: Sit quietly, choose your issue, and in imagination strike the ground with five deliberate blows of conviction, feeling that the victory is already yours. Rest in the felt sense until it radiates into your daily life.