Neville Goddard on Joshua 10:10-11 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 10 in context

Scripture Focus

10And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

11And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

Joshua 10:10-11

Biblical Context

The LORD defeats Israel's enemies in battle, pursuing them from Gibeon to Makkedah; as they flee toward Bethhoron, God rains hailstones that kill more of the enemy than the sword.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this narrative, the outer battle is a mirror of your inner life. The LORD who discomfited them is the I AM you are becoming conscious of. The foes—fear, doubt, resistance—live as states of your mind, not distant armies. When the text speaks of a great slaughter and the chase, hear it as the closing of old beliefs that can no longer stand in the light of your new premise. The hail from heaven is not punishment but a symbolic judgment that falls when awareness has shifted; what dies is not your neighbor's fate but the old condition you once accepted as real. Israel’s march along the road is your ongoing practice of attention, your decision to stay in harmony with a higher assumption. Providence and guidance are the steady results of living from the I AM, not from externals. When you claim the presence of God within you, you discompose the 'foes' before you and witness conditions rearrange to reflect your inner state. This is how salvation and redemption arrive: as a conversion of your sense of self, carried out by your own imagining.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, declare, 'I AM the victorious Presence.' Feel old fears dissolve as you visualize the foes dissolving and life rearranging to your new premise for 2-3 minutes.