Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 19:22-28 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 19 in context

Scripture Focus

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 19:22-28

Biblical Context

2 Kings 19:22-28 presents the Assyrian king’s boast against Israel, while the Holy One of Israel responds, declaring knowledge of the foe’s moves and promising to turn the invasion back. The text frames outer events as expressions of inner states and the divine capacity to redirect them.

Neville's Inner Vision

Notice how the whole drama is really an inner drama dressed in banners. The boastful king embodies a fixed sense of power—an ego convinced by the many chariots and high places that it rules. The lines about Lebanon’s cedars and the luxuriant forest show how the ego pictures its dominion over all inner territories. Yet the Holy One of Israel is not a distant threat; He is the I AM within you, the aware watcher who knows your going out and coming in. When the ego shouts, I will enter the lodgings of its borders, God replies with a quiet discipline: I will put my hook in thy nose and my bridle in thy lips—an image of inner direction, not punishment. I know thy abode; I know the pattern of thy thoughts and fears. The turning back is the revision of your inner course, a correction in consciousness that redirects the ego’s momentum along a new path. Practice: assume the state of I AM governing your mind, recognize pride as energy to be redirected, and feel that you already stand in harmony with divine intention.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, and declare mentally, I AM awareness of all my moves; see the ego’s siege soften and redirect along a new, peaceful path. Then carry this revised sense into your next decision.