Neville Goddard on 2 Kings 6:26-31 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

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 6:26-31

Biblical Context

During a famine, a woman pleads for help as one mother plans to eat her son, and the king searches for relief from outward power. The episode exposes a crisis of reliance on earthly authority and signals the inner prophet's peril when inner guidance is neglected.

Neville's Inner Vision

Two kings of a kingdom torn by scarcity, the outer king crying out for relief, mirror a mind fixated on lack. The woman’s demand and the cannibal choice are not literal hunger alone but images of a consciousness that believes safety depends on externals. In Neville's fashion, I interpret 'the LORD' as the I AM within — the never-failing Source. The line 'If the LORD do not help thee, whence shall I help thee?' becomes the question the ego asks of itself: from where will relief arise if not from the inner sense of being? The tearing of the king's garments is the visible sign of a mind's distress when it has forgotten the inner supply. Elisha the son of Shaphat is the inner voice, the higher imagination that commands reality; to threaten his head signifies the outer self's fear of losing external authority. Yet the action is not punishment but a call to re-enter true alignment. When you identify with lack, you invite crisis; when you assume I AM as your whole supply, you reinterpret the scene: the crisis dissolves as inner power manifests outwardly.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume that I AM is your only source of supply. Revise the inner scene so the imagined famine yields to inner abundance, and feel the surge of supply.