Neville Goddard on Judges 16:10-12 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 16 in context

Scripture Focus

10And Delilah said unto Samson, Behold, thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, I pray thee, wherewith thou mightest be bound.

11And he said unto her, If they bind me fast with new ropes that never were occupied, then shall I be weak, and be as another man.

12Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

Judges 16:10-12

Biblical Context

Delilah asks Samson how he could be bound; he says new ropes would bind him, Delilah binds him with them, and he breaks them like a thread.

Neville's Inner Vision

In this passage the ropes are not hardware but habits of mind. Samson’s remark that new ropes would make him weak shows that strength is a state of consciousness, not a physical fact. Delilah’s binding is the appearance of circumstance—the Philistines and the watchers—designed to provoke the ego. Yet the moment he names the new ropes, he asserts that strength flows from a maintained inner state; when the bindings are in place, the power to break them remains available, and he breaks them from off his arms like a thread. Through the Neville lens, the Philistines are inner fears and the liars in wait are the hidden doubts lurking in the chamber of mind. The true force is not the rope but the interpretation. If you accept the I AM as your unchanging reality, you can render any bondage as a thought-construct that yields to awareness. The scene teaches resilience: the binding is never final when consciousness holds to its freedom and imagines itself unbound. By revising the belief and feeling it real, you dissolve the rope before it tightens and stand as the I AM within you.

Practice This Now

Assume the state: I am free now; the binding of old beliefs dissolves into light. Then feel-it-real as you walk through a mental scene where the ropes fall away and you stand unbound.