Neville Goddard on 2 Samuel 24:11-15 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Samuel 24 in context

Scripture Focus

11For when David was up in the morning, the word of the LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,

12Go and say unto David, Thus saith the LORD, I offer thee three things; choose thee one of them, that I may do it unto thee.

13So Gad came to David, and told him, and said unto him, Shall seven years of famine come unto thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine enemies, while they pursue thee? or that there be three days' pestilence in thy land? now advise, and see what answer I shall return to him that sent me.

14And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of the LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.

15So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.

2 Samuel 24:11-15

Biblical Context

David is told by Gad that he must choose among three coming calamities; he trusts in the LORD's mercy, and a pestilence is sent on Israel.

Neville's Inner Vision

From Neville's vantage, the outer drama is a mirror of inner life. The 'word of the LORD' is the still, directing I AM within you; Gad, your inner seer, presents three mental pathways—famine (scarcity belief), flight before enemies (fear of loss), and pestilence (guilty consequence). When David responds, 'let me fall into the hand of the LORD; for His mercies are great,' he embodies the habit of turning away from ego-driven punishment toward the merciful Reality you are. The pestilence that follows is not punishment imposed from without, but the natural return of a mind that has entertained separation. Its extent—from Dan to Beersheba—symbolizes a complete, mind-wide lament; yet it runs its course under divine mercy, not under human vengeance. The teaching is that you need not fear any of the three conditions, for the I AM is the governing act, and mercy is the true law. When you align with that inner state, the appearance of calamity loses its grip, and the soul is carried by a single, merciful current into a state of renewed wholeness.

Practice This Now

Sit quietly, place a hand on your chest, and declare, 'I fall into the hand of the LORD; His mercies are great in me.' Then revise fear by feeling the I AM as the sole power and allow the sense of mercy to erase the belief in punishment.