Neville Goddard on Judges 15:1-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

1But it came to pass within a while after, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father would not suffer him to go in.

2And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

3And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.

4And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

5And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

6Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.

7And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

8And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

Judges 15:1-8

Biblical Context

Samson visits his wife, but the father bars entry and offers the younger sister. Samson vows revenge and burns the fields, triggering a violent clash that ends in slaughter.

Neville's Inner Vision

Within this arc you are the I AM awakening to a disputed field of your mind. The wheat harvest stands for your living awareness, and the father’s refusal mirrors a doubt that blocks your full entry into a desired state. Samson’s act of binding firebrands to foxes is the mind’s tendency to lash disparate thoughts into one flaming instrument; the burning of corn, vineyards, and olives is the fiery consequences of thoughts given field-wide attention. When the Philistines cry, you are hearing the echo of protected ego: the self justifies harm when it feels slighted. Yet the wording—‘I will avenge’—exposes the law: energy released in anger travels outward and enforces a result that seems righteous yet keeps you bound to a loop. The higher meaning is not vengeance but control of imagination: what you ritually ignite becomes your world, until you revise from a state of love. The scene invites you to take mastery: return to I AM, revise, and let your inner harvest mature in liberation rather than conflict.