Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 19:20-28 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 19 in context

Scripture Focus

20Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, That which thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria I have heard.

21This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

22Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

23By thy messengers thou hast reproached the LORD, and hast said, With the multitude of my chariots I am come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon, and will cut down the tall cedar trees thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the lodgings of his borders, and into the forest of his Carmel.

24I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.

25Hast thou not heard long ago how I have done it, and of ancient times that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste fenced cities into ruinous heaps.

26Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the house tops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

27But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

28Because thy rage against me and thy tumult is come up into mine ears, therefore I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

2 Kings 19:20-28

Biblical Context

The text declares that God heard Hezekiah's prayer against Sennacherib. It also declares the boasts of the enemy as a matter of judgment.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville, the siege is the mind's fear-voices clinging to control. 'With the multitude of my chariots' is the ego's boast of power; yet the true ruler is the I AM within you. The 'virgin daughter of Zion' laughing at the boast is your higher self recognizing the emptiness of the drama. The phrase 'I know thy abode' is the inner law of awareness knowing every movement of your thought; therefore 'I will put my hook in thy nose' becomes a metaphor for gently guiding the mind back to its source. When you hold to the truth that you are the I AM, the fear-voices are redirected, the inner weather changes, and what seemed to threaten becomes a remembered dream dissolving into light. The external siege lining up with your inner revision demonstrates that reality follows your state of consciousness; you don't fight the king outside, you choose a new king inside.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly with your hand on your chest and feel the I AM as the steady heartbeat. Revise the past fear by declaring, 'The siege is turned; I am the I AM, and this victory is mine now.'