Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 6:24-31 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Kings 6 in context

Scripture Focus

24And it came to pass after this, that Benhadad king of Syria gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria.

25And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

26And as the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, my lord, O king.

27And he said, If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the barnfloor, or out of the winepress?

28And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.

29So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

30And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, he had sackcloth within upon his flesh.

31Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat shall stand on him this day.

2 Kings 6:24-31

Biblical Context

Samaria is besieged and famine grows. A desperate woman speaks and the king reacts in fear and anger.

Neville's Inner Vision

Where you see Ben-Hadad's host and famine, I recognize the orchestrations of my own inner state under pressure. The siege is the mind's belief in lack; the foul exchange of an ass's head and dove's dung marks the cheap substitutes I have tolerated when I forgot the abundance already within. The woman's cry and the king's tentative response reflect the self that looks to external scenes for relief rather than to the I AM that I am. The apparent head of Elisha - the warning and promise voiced by the prophet - invites me to turn from fear to the living Word within. In the Neville sense, the remedy is to revise my state: assume the feeling of the wish fulfilled, imagine the inner provision, and dwell as though I am already supplied by the Spirit. When I do this, the famine of limitation dissolves, and the city of my consciousness rings with plenitude, even if the outer script seems unchanged.