Neville Goddard on Judges 15:7-20 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

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Scripture Focus

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.

9Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

10And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

11Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

12And they said unto him, We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them, Swear unto me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves.

13And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.

14And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.

15And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.

16And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

17And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking, that he cast away the jawbone out of his hand, and called that place Ramathlehi.

18And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?

19But God clave an hollow place that was in the jaw, and there came water thereout; and when he had drunk, his spirit came again, and he revived: wherefore he called the name thereof Enhakkore, which is in Lehi unto this day.

20And he judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.

Judges 15:7-20

Biblical Context

Samson defeats his enemies, is aided by the Spirit of the LORD, and experiences deliverance; he later thirsts, God provides water, and he judges Israel for twenty years.

Neville's Inner Vision

This narrative turns on the inner warfare of awareness. Samson embodies the I AM awakening to itself, while the Philistines and the men of Judah symbolize fears and doubts that seek to bind you. When the Spirit of the LORD comes upon him, strength flows not from outward cords but from a conscious alignment. Imagination is the true weapon, breaking the cords as flax burning in fire. The slain thousands reflect the multitude of false identities you shed in imagination, clearing space for authentic energy to act. The thirst episode reveals God's mercy within you: cry inwardly and a hollow place becomes a spring, restoring vitality. Samson’s twenty years of deliverance signal a sustained dominion achieved by inner alignment, not by external force. Your deliverance follows the same law: awaken to the awareness that you are already free, and the visible world will shift to mirror your state of consciousness.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and revise the scene by declaring, 'I am the deliverer now; the Spirit within me moves freely.' Then breathe into the chest and feel a spring of life renewing you, right here and now.