Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 23:4-6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 23 in context

Scripture Focus

4And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.

5And he put down the idolatrous priests, whom the kings of Judah had ordained to burn incense in the high places in the cities of Judah, and in the places round about Jerusalem; them also that burned incense unto Baal, to the sun, and to the moon, and to the planets, and to all the host of heaven.

6And he brought out the grove from the house of the LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.

2 Kings 23:4-6

Biblical Context

The king purges the temple by removing and burning all vessels dedicated to Baal, the grove, and the host of heaven, cleansing worship from idols. He also dismisses the idolatrous priests and the grove, burning it to powder and scattering the ashes on the graves.

Neville's Inner Vision

To Neville Goddard, this passage is a map of consciousness. The temple is your inner state of awareness; the vessels and grove are images you have worshiped as power over you. The king’s command represents a decisive act of imagination: when you decide to remove the Baal vessels and the grove, you free your I AM from dependence on outward symbols. The host of heaven symbolizes persistent thought systems that pretend to govern you; burning them outside Jerusalem is a shift of inner allegiance from external signs to the inner authority you are. Stamping the ashes to powder and casting them on the graves of the people symbolizes dissolving old beliefs that once seemed permanent. This is revision in Neville’s language: you choose, inwardly, what is true, and the outer world follows as the effect of that inner act. The purification arises as you align with true worship—the unmixed awareness of being—and repeatedly imagine and feel that the I AM is in charge of your reality.

Practice This Now

Assume the throne of your inner temple and command every idol to depart. Imagine bringing forth the vessels of limitation, burning them in the field of Kidron, stamping the ashes to powder, and scattering them on the graves of old beliefs, then rest and feel the I AM filling the space as you declare, 'This temple is purified' until it becomes your lived reality.