Neville Goddard on 2 Samuel 17:13 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Samuel 17 in context

Scripture Focus

13Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.

2 Samuel 17:13

Biblical Context

If a foe enters a city, Israel will bring ropes and draw the city into the river until not a single small stone remains.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this verse the city is a fortified belief within your own mind. When that belief has entered your inner city, the whole Israel of your consciousness—imagination, will, and attention—can bring ropes of deliberate awareness and bind it for removal. To draw the city into the river is to let the stream of life carry the old thought away, not by punishment but by aligning your I AM with the truth that governs all states. As the river flows, every tiny stone of the old belief dissolves; no trace remains to haunt you. The act is a practical drama of revision: you decide that such a belief is not the truth of you, and you feel it already dissolved, already replaced by a living certainty. Providence then guides your steps, and your faithful awareness yields a new state that is free of the former fortress.

Practice This Now

Assume the feeling that the old belief is dissolved. Picture gathering ropes of attention and drawing it into the river of life until not a single stone remains.