Inner Clarity Amid Grief

2 Samuel 13:30-33 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Samuel 13 in context

Scripture Focus

30And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
31Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
32And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
33Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is dead.
2 Samuel 13:30-33

Biblical Context

David receives news that Absalom has slain all the king's sons, then grieves. Jonadab corrects him, saying only Amnon is dead and that the others remain, urging him not to take the tidings to heart.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's teaching, tidings are movements of consciousness, not fixed facts. When David believes all his sons are dead, he experiences a collapse of inner order—grief arising from a faulty assumption. The correction, that Amnon alone is dead, is not about Amnon himself but about the inner belief that life can be extinguished or canceled. The king's sorrow becomes a symbol of a mind clinging to appearances rather than the I AM that underpins all true life. The inner kingdom endures regardless of outward events; the true power lies in the choice of state. By recognizing that the scene is a projection of consciousness, you can revise it: affirm that the entire kingdom of your being remains intact, and that no event can defeat your essential life. In this light, drama yields to realization, loss to divine order, and fear to calm assurance that you are the I AM, forever unshaken.

Practice This Now

When confronted with alarming news, quietly assume, 'Only the I AM is real; nothing truly dies in me.' Then feel the truth of that assumption by resting in a calm, radiant inner state where the kingdom remains unbroken.

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