Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 34:9-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 34 in context

Scripture Focus

9That every man should let his manservant, and every man his maidservant, being an Hebrew or an Hebrewess, go free; that none should serve himself of them, to wit, of a Jew his brother.

10Now when all the princes, and all the people, which had entered into the covenant, heard that every one should let his manservant, and every one his maidservant, go free, that none should serve themselves of them any more, then they obeyed, and let them go.

11But afterward they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

Jeremiah 34:9-11

Biblical Context

Jeremiah 34:9-11 tells of a covenant to release Hebrew servants. The people obey at first and set them free, but later they reverse the vow and drag them back into bondage.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this narrative, the servants symbolize inner states waiting for liberty. The covenant to let them go is a decisional shift in consciousness—a statement that the I AM rules over limitation and that freedom is your natural condition. The princes and people are the scattered thoughts and habits that agree to a new possibility; when they hear the decree, they align with liberty and release what they once regarded as theirs. Yet the later reversal shows the stubborn habit of old conditions—fear, doubt, and the sense of debt or identity—that would rebind what has just been freed. Neville's method teaches that you don't move freedom into your life by changing outward circumstances but by changing the state you occupy. When you claim, 'I AM free,' you reenter the cadence of creation from the inside; the world moves to reflect that inner assurance. The bondage in the story is not the chains but the inertia of a mind not yet convinced. The deliverance occurs the moment the inner law is believed and trusted as your present reality.