Neville Goddard on 2 Samuel 21:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Samuel 21 in context

Scripture Focus

8But the king took the two sons of Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, whom she bare unto Saul, Armoni and Mephibosheth; and the five sons of Michal the daughter of Saul, whom she brought up for Adriel the son of Barzillai the Meholathite:

9And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.

2 Samuel 21:8-9

Biblical Context

David hands over Saul’s grandsons and Michal’s foster-sons to the Gibeonites, who hang them on the hill before the LORD. They die together during the barley harvest.

Neville's Inner Vision

Observe that the king in the text is your I AM, the now-aware ruler of reality. Rizpah’s two sons and Michal’s five are not persons but inner states—attachments, loyalties, and grievances you have carried as if they could still determine your life. When the king delivers them to the Gibeonites, the inner law places those states on a hill before the LORD, calling each to reckoning in the light of awareness. The seven together symbolize completed patterns you once thought inseparable: pride, fear, resentment, and the need to prove yourself. Harvest time marks a moment of visible consequence—the truth of what you have sown in imagination. This is not punishment imposed from outside, but the natural action of your consciousness when it chooses to align with the I AM. The sacrifice is the psychological release—an atonement that clears space for new, truly covenant-keeping ideas to take root. In this inner drama, justice arises as reconciliation with what you know to be real: that you are the I AM and all manifesting follows your state of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM is present now. Revise the belief that old stories control you and feel those states dissolve into light, making room for new covenant ideas to take root.