Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 24:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 24 in context

Scripture Focus

8Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

9And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, according to all that his father had done.

2 Kings 24:8-9

Biblical Context

Jehoiachin was eighteen when he began to reign in Jerusalem for three months, and he did evil in the sight of the LORD, following all that his father had done. This parable shows a youth ruled by inherited patterns rather than a fresh alignment with the divine.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of the eighteen-year-old king as the newborn moment in your own consciousness: the ruler in the city of your will, Jerusalem, where decisions are made. The three months of his reign signify a brief season when the old pattern still governs you; the name Nehushta hints at a nurturing tradition that has shaped your inner climate. To do evil, in Neville's sense, is not a crime against a historical God but the knee-jerk obedience to inherited thoughts and impulses, the repetition of 'as my father did' rather than the living I AM here and now. You are not condemned to a doomed fate; you are invited to shift your inner state. The scriptural figure is a picture of your own mind, and the remedy is inner revision: assume that the higher self, the I AM, is sovereign and that the old king yields to the new king you imagine. When you persist in imagining the I AM as king and feel its reality, the city of your mind reorders itself and the old pattern fades into the background.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, declare 'I AM the king of this inner city now,' and feel the reign settle into your chest. Then imagine the old pattern dissolving as the new state becomes your present reality.