Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 38:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 38 in context

Scripture Focus

6Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

7Now when Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs which was in the king's house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon; the king then sitting in the gate of Benjamin;

Jeremiah 38:6-7

Biblical Context

Jeremiah is cast into a muddy dungeon with no water, sinking in mire. An Ethiopian eunuch named Ebedmelech hears of it and signals a turn toward mercy and eventual deliverance.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider the dungeon not as a place, but as a state of consciousness where Jeremiahs of your mind feel the mire of limitation and the absence of life-giving water. The cords lowered into the pit are your habitual thoughts binding your awareness to lack. Yet the very act of being cast down is an invitation to rediscover the I AM within—the one who does not die in mire but remains aware. Ebedmelech, the Ethiopian, represents mercy as a figure in your imagination who bears witness to your suffering and petitions the king of your house—the gate of Benjamin, symbol of your spiritual awareness—to intervene. When mercy speaks, your awareness is reminded that you are not the dungeon, nor the mire, but the consciousness that chooses what to accept. In belief, Jeremiah sinks; in awareness, you declare, I am still the I AM. The deliverance comes as a revision: scent of liberty rises as you align with your higher self and lift Jeremiah from the pit.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Assume the self-claim I am the I AM; this mire cannot bind me. Feel mercy move to lift Jeremiah out of the pit in your imagination, right now.