Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 23:15-18 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 23 in context

Scripture Focus

15Moreover the altar that was at Bethel, and the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, and stamped it small to powder, and burned the grove.

16And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.

17Then he said, What title is that that I see? And the men of the city told him, It is the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.

18And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.

2 Kings 23:15-18

Biblical Context

Josiah dismantles the Bethel altar and high place, burns the grove, and later burns the bones of the man of God on the altar, leaving the tombs undisturbed as a symbolic fulfillment of the command.

Neville's Inner Vision

The narrative is not about a distant king’s reform, but about the states of your own consciousness. The Bethel altar and the high place symbolize entrenched beliefs and habitual worship you have mistaken for truth. Josiah’s act of breaking, burning, and pulverizing the altar is your inner decision to pulverize any image that still rules your feeling-state. The bones on the altar are fixed memories—old definitions of what is true—now being offered to the flame of awareness to be transformed, not preserved as superstition. When the people defer to the sepulchre of the man of God, you are reminded that inner authority resides in the living now, not in old forms. The command to leave the bones unmoved becomes a discipline: acknowledge truth as permanent, even while you surrender the form that once housed it. In Neville’s terms, your I AM is the reality behind every ritual. Purge the outer altar, and you purify your inner sanctuary, awakening a true worship aligned with your present I AM.

Practice This Now

Assume right now: I AM is cleansing this inner altar. See the old idol crumble into powder and vanish; rest in the certainty of the I AM dwelling as your true-worship.