Neville Goddard on 2 Samuel 3:13-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read 2 Samuel 3 in context

Scripture Focus

13And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.

14And David sent messengers to Ishbosheth Saul's son, saying, Deliver me my wife Michal, which I espoused to me for an hundred foreskins of the Philistines.

2 Samuel 3:13-14

Biblical Context

David agrees to a league with Ishbosheth, but only if Michal, his wife, is brought to him. The passage centers on covenant loyalty and the inner costs of alliance.

Neville's Inner Vision

In Neville's light, the text is a parable of states of consciousness. The league is the alignment of inner faculties, a covenant between aspects of the self. The demand that you shall not see my face until Michal is brought represents the inner law: you cannot behold the true Self, the face of God, until you restore the beloved inner attribute—Michal, emblem of loyalty and union—back into awareness. The hundred foreskins symbolize the price paid in the outer world to prove your worthiness for reconciliation, yet the real purchase is your willingness to remember and re-embrace the covenant within. When you succeed, the presence of God, the I AM that you are, stands revealed in unity. The drama invites you to discern which inner “wife” or principle you have cast aside and to retrieve it, that your life might align with the imperturbable sovereignty of God within.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of a renewed inner covenant: imagine Michal returning to your awareness and feel the presence of God within as the seal of reunion; declare, I am in covenant with the Self and with God.