Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 25:25-26 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 25 in context

Scripture Focus

25But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah.

26And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.

2 Kings 25:25-26

Biblical Context

Gedaliah is murdered by Ishmael, and the people, fearing the Chaldees, rise and flee to Egypt.

Neville's Inner Vision

Gedaliah in this script is the inner governor I set on the throne of awareness. Ishmael—my treacherous thought—slays Gedaliah, a symbol of a belief that stability lies in a lineage of outward assurances. The ten men with him and the slain king show how fear multiplies when one chooses the mind's exit door rather than the I AM here. When all the people, great and small, flee to Egypt, I recognize the mind fleeing outward to imagined safety, instead of remaining in present consciousness. In Neville’s reading, these are not distant events but movements of states of consciousness. The exile is an inner relocation, a turning away from the I AM toward the illusion of separation. Yet the I AM remains unmoved; no act can touch it. When betrayal appears, it is only a signal to return my attention to the one reality I know: I AM, here and now. I can restore the inner kingdom by choosing the I AM as the sole reality and letting the scene reconstitute itself from within.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Assume the I AM sits on your inner throne; feel it real that no betrayal can dislodge you. Revise the scene by imagining Gedaliah restored as governor within your consciousness and the exodus dissolved by the certainty of your sovereign awareness.