Neville Goddard on Judges 1:6-7 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 1 in context

Scripture Focus

6But Adonibezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

7And Adonibezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.

Judges 1:6-7

Biblical Context

Adonibezek flees, is captured, and his boast that God hath requited him frames the scene as a claim of divine justice. The passage portrays outward punishment as a mirror of inner deeds.

Neville's Inner Vision

Consider this not as a distant lawgiver’s vengeance, but as the memory of a state of consciousness you have entertained. Adonibezek’s loss of thumbs and toes is the symbolic stripping of the faculties to grasp and move—your capacity to take hold of life and walk with liberty. The boast, “as I have done, so God hath requited me,” becomes the mind’s recognition that the inner law answers to inner acts. In Neville’s terms, God is the I AM within, the awareness that feels and imagines; the outer judgment echoed in Jerusalem’s setting signals the collapse of the old state, inviting a fresh alignment. The outer scene is not remote punishment but the natural result of inner habits. When you revise your scene—feel the wish fulfilled now, forgive past harms, and affirm your wholeness—the sense of retribution dissolves into harmony, and you walk upright again in your inner kingdom.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and revise the scene: declare, I AM the I AM, free of the old limitations; imagine Adonibezek’s cruelty dissolving as your inner state shifts, and feel the entire being restored—throes of limitation replaced by radiant action.