Covenant, Famine, and Healing

2 Samuel 21:1-2 - A Neville Goddard interpretation

Read 2 Samuel 21 in context

Scripture Focus

1Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David enquired of the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
2And the king called the Gibeonites, and said unto them; (now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)
2 Samuel 21:1-2

Biblical Context

David endures a three-year famine, and upon inquiring of the LORD, learns it stems from Saul's slaughter of the Gibeonites. The famine reveals a clash between the present self and a remembered oath.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the reader, the famine is a signal from the inner life, not a doom from without. In the Neville lens, Saul’s bloody zeal represents the old self clinging to punishment and separation, a state of consciousness that has forgotten its covenant with life. The Gibeonites are not distant people but the remnant of a vow you once swore to protect, an inner memory that still governs your choices. Israel’s oath to them is an inner law you have not fully embodied, and the current lack is the vibration of that neglect. David, the awake self, inquires of the LORD—the I AM within you—seeking alignment with the true covenant. The answer reveals that the famine belongs to the old form of consciousness, not to you who know your oneness with divine order. To heal, revise the memory: forgive the past zeal, seal the inner law again, and stand in the certainty that you are governed by love and justice. When you hold that awareness, abundance returns and the land flows with nourishment.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit in quiet and imagine you are already free of the old famine; see the supply returning as a natural expression of the inner covenant. Feel it real now by repeating, 'I AM the I AM; I restore the covenant; abundance is mine.'

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