Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 21:7-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 21 in context

Scripture Focus

7And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house, of which the LORD said to David, and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

8Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers; only if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them, and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them.

9But they hearkened not: and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil than did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel.

2 Kings 21:7-9

Biblical Context

Manasseh places a carved image in the temple; the passage states that, if the people observe all commandments, God will bless the land, but they do not listen, and Manasseh seduces them to greater evil than the surrounding nations.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within Neville's lens, the house in the verse is your mind; the grove image is any idol that would take the place of the I AM in you. When you entertain such images, your awareness slips from the throne and you follow a counterfeit order, as Manasseh did in the story, seducing your thoughts to evil by degrees. God’s promise that this house will bear His name forever becomes a living possibility only when you observe to do all that the inner law commands, i.e., align with the quiet, unwavering presence of awareness. The danger is not a distant judgment but a soft surrender to imagery that distracts you from your true self. The cure is a deliberate re-entrance of the I AM: affirm that the temple is ruled by consciousness, revise every competing image to reflect the one God within, and feel the reality of that obedience now. When you claim the throne of inner being, the outward world follows in harmony with your true state.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in silence, place attention at the heart, and declare: I am the I AM in this temple; no idol will displace Me. Then revise any troubling image by affirming: I observe and I obey the inner command; today I align my thoughts with the law within.