Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 5:1-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the LORD had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

2And the Syrians had gone out by companies, and had brought away captive out of the land of Israel a little maid; and she waited on Naaman's wife.

3And she said unto her mistress, Would God my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! for he would recover him of his leprosy.

4And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maid that is of the land of Israel.

5And the king of Syria said, Go to, go, and I will send a letter unto the king of Israel. And he departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of raiment.

6And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, Now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have therewith sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.

7And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

8And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

9So Naaman came with his horses and with his chariot, and stood at the door of the house of Elisha.

10And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

11But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

12Are not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel? may I not wash in them, and be clean? So he turned and went away in a rage.

13And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

14Then went he down, and dipped himself seven times in Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God: and his flesh came again like unto the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.

2 Kings 5:1-14

Biblical Context

Naaman, a great Syrian commander, is leprous. A Israelite maid points to the prophet in Samaria; Naaman goes to Elisha, washes in the Jordan seven times, and is cleansed.

Neville's Inner Vision

Think of Naaman as the living state of consciousness called a leper-scarred ego. The LORD’s deliverance comes not through grand human power but by a word of inner instruction: go wash in Jordan seven times. The maid’s whisper is the inner radio of truth—faith in a prophet within, not in outward kings or riches. When the king of Israel frets, he reveals the old habit of separation—Me, the doer, seeking to control outcomes. Elisha, the true inner power, does not plead for homage but simply states the action; the outward event matches an inward choice. Naaman's rage melts as the suggestion repeats, until the seven dips dissolve the self-image that clings to isolation. The cleansing is the transformation of self-concept: bodily change mirrors inner alignment. In Neville’s terms, Naaman’s healing is the awakening of God within—awareness that revives the flesh when the mind consents to the truth of its own unity with the One.

Practice This Now

Imaginative practice: Assume the I AM is present; in quiet, repeat 'I am clean and whole' until the feeling of renewal floods your body; then visualize stepping out renewed.