Neville Goddard on Jeremiah 41:10 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Jeremiah 41 in context

Scripture Focus

10Then Ishmael carried away captive all the residue of the people that were in Mizpah, even the king's daughters, and all the people that remained in Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had committed to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam: and Ishmael the son of Nethaniah carried them away captive, and departed to go over to the Ammonites.

Jeremiah 41:10

Biblical Context

Ishmael carries away the remaining people of Mizpah, including the king's daughters, and departs toward the Ammonites.

Neville's Inner Vision

Jeremiah 41:10 unfolds as an allegory for the inner world. Mizpah marks the boundary where your consciousness stands between states; Ishmael is a belief or voice that asserts loss and captivity, while the residue and the king's daughters symbolize your noble faculties—discernment, rulership, mercy—now carried away by fear into the land of Ammonites. Nebuzaradan and Gedaliah are outer circumstances and provisional governors that appear to define your inner scene. The apparent captivity is not a historical fact but a movement of mind that threatens unity. The remedy is to realize that these captives are only shifts of awareness, not the truth of who you are. Call back the exiled qualities by assuming a new state of consciousness: you are the I AM, sovereign over Mizpah, able to restore the inner kingdom. By revising, acknowledging your unity, and feeling the nobility return, you re-enter the wholeness that never departed.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes, declare I AM as the governor of your inner Mizpah, and call back the captive nobility. Feel the reunion as a warm, tangible sense of unity renewing your mind.