Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 18:4 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 18 in context

Scripture Focus

4He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

2 Kings 18:4

Biblical Context

King Hezekiah tore down high places, smashed the images, cut down the groves, and broke the bronze serpent that had become an idol, ending incense to it.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this verse the shrines are not distant temples but inner patterns of belief. The high places, the carved images, and the groves symbolize fixed attitudes you cling to for safety, status, or healing. Hezekiah’s act of breaking the brazen serpent is a psychological breakthrough: it is the release of attachment to forms that have claimed power. The bronze serpent, once a symbol of healing given to Moses, has become Nehushtan—an idol you worship rather than the Presence you worship. Your mind may still burn incense to a symbol—luck, ritual, moral certainty—believing these forms grant protection. Neville's guidance invites you to shift your worship from external signs to the I AM, the consciousness that is always present. The removal of the idol makes room for God within, not a new rule but a new awareness. When you stop feeding the symbol's supposed efficacy, you discover that healing and safety arise from within your own consciousness. The true temple is not in external rites but in the quiet recognition that I AM is the only altar.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and declare I AM is the altar within. Then revise one cherished external symbol you lean on—call it Nehushtan—and feel the inner sanctuary widen as you rest in I AM.