Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 17:7-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 17 in context

Scripture Focus

7For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the LORD their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt, from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,

8And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the LORD cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

2 Kings 17:7-8

Biblical Context

The passage says the people sinned by turning from the LORD and following the gods of the nations around them. In Neville's lens, this is a statement about inner states of consciousness, not only outward events.

Neville's Inner Vision

Israel’s sin, in this light, is not a stubborn refusal to worship a distant deity, but a surrender to the belief that powers outside the self govern fate. The LORD who brought them forth from bondage is the I AM within every moment; when they feared other gods and followed the statutes of the heathen, they yielded to a daydream in which consciousness is ruled by external kings and external rites. The 'idols' are not inert objects but habitual thoughts and feelings that pretend to save us—fears of lack, approval, or power. By walking in the statutes of the heathen, they aligned their present experience with memories and rules not living in the inner I AM. In Neville’s psychology, every nation of Israel would awaken if they assume the consciousness that is already free, here and now. The remedy is a change of state: return to the awareness that you are the Lord of your inner land; place your trust in the I AM and revise every outer allegiance into inner devotion. When you imagine and feel as if your life is governed by the I AM within, the external seeming reverses to reflect that reality.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, rest in the I AM within, and revise the sense that external powers govern you. Affirm I AM the Lord of this inner land, guided now by inner wisdom.