Neville Goddard on Joshua 13:21-22 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 13 in context

Scripture Focus

21And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.

22Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

Joshua 13:21-22

Biblical Context

The passage records Israel's defeat of the kings and cities of Sihon and the slain Balaam, signaling victory over enemies in the land.

Neville's Inner Vision

Joshua 13:21-22 speaks of lands won and foes fallen, yet the real meaning is within. The marching soldiers are your thoughts moving with purpose; the kings you defeat are stubborn beliefs that have claimed your attention. Sihon, the Amorite king, and Balaam, the soothsayer, symbolize a mind that tells you what is possible only in fear or error. When you listen to the I AM within, you discover that the outer world is the reverberation of an inner decree. Israel's victory is the inner alignment: a state of consciousness that has decided, here and now, that the old kingdoms of limitation are no longer governing your life. Your duty is not to fight people but to revise the idea of yourself until what you see outwardly is only the visible sign of a conquered mind. Judgment comes as accountability: you are the ruler of your inner landscape; what you permit into awareness becomes your world. If you refuse to accept the old king's decree, you displace him by the living conviction that the kingdom belongs to you, here and now.