Neville Goddard on Joshua 21:20-26 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 21 in context

Scripture Focus

20And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.

21For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

22And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four cities.

23And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,

24Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.

25And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.

26All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.

Joshua 21:20-26

Biblical Context

These verses set apart ten Kohathite cities with suburbs as places of refuge for the slayer. It frames mercy and justice as a divinely ordered arrangement within the inner life.

Neville's Inner Vision

All the inhabitants and boundaries you read in Joshua are shadows of your inner geography. The Kohathite families are the settled states of consciousness that remain, and the cities they possess are the focal points of awareness in which you live and move. The city of refuge is the state of your I AM where the slayer-fear, guilt, or rash action cannot reach you because you have withdrawn into perfect attention. The suburbs around each city are the habits, attitudes, and routines that guard and frame that central life. The ten cities signify wholeness and order within the mosaic of your mind, a practical map that mercy and justice can inhabit. When you accept that you are the one who arranges these refuges, you enact salvation and redemption in the present. The outer events of your day reflect this interior arrangement, confirming that imagination creates reality, and that you live within a sanctuary you freely constructed by assumed awareness.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume you already dwell in one of these inner refuge cities, feeling the safety of your I AM as you affirm, 'I am the city of refuge.' Then revise a recent fear by declaring that mercy and justice are established in your heart now.