Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 19:8-13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 19 in context

Scripture Focus

8So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

9And when he heard say of Tirhakah king of Ethiopia, Behold, he is come out to fight against thee: he sent messengers again unto Hezekiah, saying,

10Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.

11Behold, thou hast heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands, by destroying them utterly: and shalt thou be delivered?

12Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; as Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which were in Thelasar?

13Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivah?

2 Kings 19:8-13

Biblical Context

Rabshakeh returns with boasts that Jerusalem will fall and that their God cannot save them. The speech cites defeated nations to prove deliverance is impossible.

Neville's Inner Vision

Picture Jerusalem as your own state of consciousness—the I AM that Hezekiah embodies. The messenger from Assyria is not a distant empire but the mental tendency to doubt that the inner God can save you from a future-like calamity. When Rabshakeh asks, 'Let not thy God deceive thee,' he is naming the very habit of mind that distrusts the vivid sense of being already delivered. The lands he cites—Gozan, Haran, Arpad—are memories of old states you allowed to vanish, attempts to persuade you that no victory is possible. Yet the scene is not about geography; it is about what you believe you are. If you fix your gaze on the outer army, you feed the dream of separation; if you turn inward and affirm, 'I am the I AM; Jerusalem is safe,' you dissolve the threat by recognizing the power of consciousness to create. The delivery promised is not elsewhere; it is your own shift in state. Jerusalem is deliverance when you stop mixing your identity with the fear, and let the God within you speak the truth of ultimate safety.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, identify with the I AM that you are; revise the scene by stating, 'Jerusalem is delivered; my God within me saves this city.' Feel the inner confidence as if the threat dissolves.