Inner Rebellion, Inner King

2 Samuel 20:1 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Samuel 20 in context

Scripture Focus

1And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew a trumpet, and said, We have no part in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.
2 Samuel 20:1

Biblical Context

In 2 Samuel 20:1, Sheba, a Benjamite, stirs rebellion by blowing a trumpet and declaring that Israel has no part in David. The verse portrays a split in the mind between loyalty to the inner king and the pull of division.

Neville's Inner Vision

Sheba’s trumpet is not a history lesson but a pointer to a state of consciousness. It is the moment you say, 'I have no part in David' when David stands for the inner king—the I AM within you. The Benjamite is the impulse of separation, the Belial voice that births fear and scatters Israel into camps. The 'we' and the 'tents' show your mind fragmenting into opinions and divisions instead of dwelling in the unity of consciousness. Yet the kingdom is not in the outward event but in awareness. Your imagination, properly directed, is the instrument by which you return to the one ruler within. When you assume that you are already one with the inner David and that the entire Israel of your mind belongs to that king, you revise the story. The trumpet ceases to dictate terms; the sense of lack dissolves as you rest in I AM—the sovereign, indivisible presence. In that rest, the inner kingdom asserts itself and the sense of separation fades, replaced by a living awareness that you are always the king inside.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: In the next few minutes, assume the feeling 'I am the I AM, one with the inner king.' Revise every voice of separation by repeating 'I belong to the inner David' until unity feels real.

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