Neville Goddard on Joshua 7:19-26 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Joshua 7 in context

Scripture Focus

19And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

20And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

23And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.

24And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

25And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

26And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

Joshua 7:19-26

Biblical Context

Achan's hidden act of coveting is revealed through Joshua. His private sin becomes communal trouble, showing that what is concealed within a person affects the whole camp.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the inner calendar of Joshua 7, Achan’s act is a state of consciousness moment in which a lingering desire to possess arises. The garment, the silver, and the gold symbolize images formed by imagination—pictures of lack or status the mind clings to. When such pictures are cherished, the inner camp is unsettled and external order suffers to reflect that disturbance. The confession Joshua seeks is not a judgment from without but an alignment with the I AM within—the divine awareness that knows the truth of you. To confess is to revise the belief that you are defined by these images; it is an act of inner repentance that returns you to wholeness. As you name the error and bring it into the light, the inner weather shifts, the hidden motive is exposed, and life’s troops align with divine order. The valley of Achor becomes a doorway of breakthrough, a moment when the mind chooses truth over fear and the covenant flows through unhindered.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and identify a hidden desire you cling to; declare to the I AM, 'I release this claim now.' Then dwell in the feeling of being cleansed and let the camp return to harmony.