Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 19:23-28 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 19 in context

Scripture Focus

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 19:23-28

Biblical Context

The Assyrian envoy mocks YHWH with boasts of chariots and conquered lands; God declares He knows the enemy’s moves and will turn him back, dissolving the siege of Jerusalem.

Neville's Inner Vision

Your inner self is the only ruler here. Sennacherib’s boasting is the mental picture of limitation you have given form to in your own consciousness. The grandeur of his chariots is the prideful thought that I alone am coming up to the heights, while the cedar trees and Carmel spread symbolize fixed beliefs that seem to hem you in. Yet the passage reveals a higher order: God’s awareness—your I AM—knows thy abode, thy going out, thy coming in. The impetuous shout is heard in the inner ear, and the correction is not by punishment but by the return of the mind to its true nature. When you acknowledge that the siege is an image, you can place a hook in the ego’s nose and divert the path by which you have been moving—back to the original assumption that you are already free. The shift is the recognition that the life you see is your own imagining; the resolution is to revoke the fear and feel the end as already realized.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In the next few minutes, assume the state I am free and in command of my world. Revise the scene, replacing the siege with quiet inner confidence, and feel the outcome as already accomplished.