Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 5:7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 5 in context

Scripture Focus

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.

2 Kings 5:7

Biblical Context

The verse shows the king of Israel reacting in fear and pride when faced with a request beyond his power. It reveals how the ego seeks to pronounce life and death rather than aligning with a Higher Life.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the Neville perspective, the king of Israel is not a distant monarch but the state of consciousness that believes it must govern life by politics and fear. The emissary letter is a thought-form that seems to threaten your chosen scene, a quarrel stirred by pride. Naaman’s leprosy stands not as a physical disease alone but as the inward condition crying out to be claimed by a higher life-energy. When the king cries Am I God, to kill and to make alive? he exposes a mindset that mistakes power for life. Healing, in this light, comes not through external authority but through submitting to the I AM—awareness that imagines and thus creates. The quarrel dissolves when you stop looking for life externally and insist that the inner I AM alone decides what is true, what is possible, and what is healed. Your present scene is a mirror: shift the inner assumption, and the outer circumstances reorder to reflect your revised reality. This is the inner sovereignty Providence guiding your imagination.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: In a quiet moment, affirm I AM the Life Now and revise the scene in my mind as already healed. Feel the vitality moving through me until it seems real.