Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 13:3-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 13 in context

Scripture Focus

3And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.

4And Jehoahaz besought the LORD, and the LORD hearkened unto him: for he saw the oppression of Israel, because the king of Syria oppressed them.

5(And the LORD gave Israel a saviour, so that they went out from under the hand of the Syrians: and the children of Israel dwelt in their tents, as beforetime.

6Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who made Israel sin, but walked therein: and there remained the grove also in Samaria.)

7Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

2 Kings 13:3-7

Biblical Context

Israel's troubles come from a mind asleep to its power. When Jehoahaz pleads, God grants a savior, yet the old sins linger.

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel's trouble is the mind in resistance, a state of consciousness that forgets its own power. The anger of the LORD is not a punishment pressing outward, but the inner friction that awakens you to your misaligned assumptions. Hazael and Benhadad personify the pressure of a belief that you are weak, controlled by forces outside. When Jehoahaz pleads, the Lord hearkens because the awareness within sees the oppression as a mis-tuned vibration, not an eternal verdict. The gift of a savior is the inner revision that returns you to a version of yourself free to move and breathe, to tent again in the beforetime simplicity, yet still clouded by old worship of external controls—the grove remains as a reminder that outer form follows inner habits. The moral is not that God punishes the nation, but that mind must align with its own power. Mercy arrives when you assume the truth you seek; you become your own liberator by changing what you imagine to be true. That is the dynamic of your life: the savior is your own awareness, awakening you from fear to love.