Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 19:1-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 19 in context

Scripture Focus

1Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

2And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee,

3And say, Hear ye the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.

4Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;

5They have built also the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings unto Baal, which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

6Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that this place shall no more be called Tophet, nor The valley of the son of Hinnom, but The valley of slaughter.

7And I will make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place; and I will cause them to fall by the sword before their enemies, and by the hands of them that seek their lives: and their carcases will I give to be meat for the fowls of the heaven, and for the beasts of the earth.

8And I will make this city desolate, and an hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished and hiss because of all the plagues thereof.

9And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters, and they shall eat every one the flesh of his friend in the siege and straitness, wherewith their enemies, and they that seek their lives, shall straiten them.

Jeremiah 19:1-9

Biblical Context

God warns Judah that idolatry and bloodshed will bring desolation, exile, and the valley of slaughter. The message is severe, but the aim is awakening to true loyalty to the I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

Beloved, picture the bottle and valley not as distant places but as states of your own consciousness. The potter's bottle is your imagining—the vessel you use to shape your world. The ancients of the people and priests are the inner authorities you unquestioningly bow to—fears, status, and old stories you swell with belief. When you fill this inner vessel with incense to other gods—attachments to things you think you must have—your inner space becomes Tophet, a furnace of burning thoughts that hurt your own heart and the innocents inside you—the parts of you open to trust and peace. The blood of innocents and the siege describe the conflicts you endure when you resist the truth of your I AM. Yet the message is not punishment but invitation: void the old counsel in this place, not to condemn, but to reveal that you are the sovereign who can revise. When you claim I AM as your reality rather than external powers, the city becomes desolate to old fear and open to renewal. Your true kingdom is a state of awareness waiting to be invoked by a single, steadfast assumption that you are already whole.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes, hold a potter’s bottle in imagination, pour out your old beliefs, then declare I AM and feel the new reality replacing fear.