Neville Goddard on Judges 12:6 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 12 in context

Scripture Focus

6Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Judges 12:6

Biblical Context

The passage presents a test by pronunciation that exposes a speaker's inner state; those who cannot pronounce the word correctly mark a boundary and face judgment at the Jordan crossing.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this chapter the test of a word is a test of consciousness. The demand to say Shibboleth is a demand that your mind align with a truth you desire to enter. The failing pronunciation reveals a split within the mind; crossing the Jordan represents moving from a limited self to a living awareness. You are invited to see that the boundary is not physical but a threshold of belief. The reality you inhabit is the imagination in which you identify with the I AM and persist in the truth you claim there. If you revise your sense of self to embody the word you speak, the imagined crossing becomes real now. The inner judge at work is your own awareness correcting misbelief and restoring justice as coherence between thought and lived experience. Thus, the story invites you to dwell in wholeness and to know that what you pronounce within becomes your outward crossing.

Practice This Now

Assume the state of the true word and mentally pronounce the Shibboleth with confidence; feel the crossing of Jordan as a present, tangible shift in your consciousness.