Neville Goddard on Judges 20:8-14 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 20 in context

Scripture Focus

8And all the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn into his house.

9But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;

10And we will take ten men of an hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and an hundred of a thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to fetch victual for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have wrought in Israel.

11So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.

12And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?

13Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial, which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel:

14But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

Judges 20:8-14

Biblical Context

The people of Israel unite as one to address a grievous act at Gibeah, planning a collective purge and purification that pursues righteous order within the mind.

Neville's Inner Vision

Judges 20:8–14 presents a people awakening to a single consciousness and choosing to face a grave error with united intent. In the Neville Goddard sense, Gibeah is a belief within the inner theatre that acted as folly when the mind sought to see itself as divided. The phrase all the people arose as one man symbolizes the moment the I AM gathers its scattered aspects and aligns them in a single, sovereign decision. Going up by lot signifies yielding to the inner order that names the course for the whole mind, rather than flitting between private desires. The plan to fetch victual and act 'according to all the folly' points to the need to bring to light and dispose of the lower patterns that feed misaction. The call to deliver the men of Belial is an inner cleansing, a release of corrupt thoughts that would poison the whole consciousness. The Benjamin faction resisting Israel mirrors the stubborn parts of self that resist inner reform; yet the story ends with the inner law pressed to purge evil and restore righteousness within, through unity and decisive inner action.

Practice This Now

Assume the I AM is the sole ruler of your mind, and that all parts of you are united as one. In the quiet, revise the belief of 'evil' by declaring it already discharged and feel the reality of inner purification now.