Neville Goddard on Judges 17:4-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 17 in context

Scripture Focus

4Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

5And the man Micah had an house of gods, and made an ephod, and teraphim, and consecrated one of his sons, who became his priest.

Judges 17:4-5

Biblical Context

Micah builds a private shrine with idols, ephod, and teraphim and sets his son as priest, illustrating a drift from true worship to personal images. It signals how inner loyalties can cling to external forms rather than the living I AM.

Neville's Inner Vision

Take this as an inner drama in which money returns to a mother image and then serves a private sanctuary of projection. The founder who makes the image is the mind fashioning an idol from beliefs that feel safe and familiar. The house of Micah becomes your inner temple, where an ephod and teraphim stand as mental props—structures you lean on for guidance. The consecrated son who becomes priest embodies your established habits of thought that authorize these images. In Neville’s psychology, this shows how attention is diverted from the I AM to images that seem to fill the room but fail to satisfy the deeper presence. Yet the text hints at possibility: true worship lies not in the idol but in the realization that consciousness itself can revise. When you recognize the inner shrine as a product of awareness, you can return to the I AM, dissolve the image, and invite the living Presence to illuminate the mind with clarity and peace.

Practice This Now

Imaginative_act: Close your eyes and assume the I AM as the sole Presence in the room; declare that you are the temple. Then visualize the idol images dissolving and the space filling with the living Presence.