Neville Goddard on Judges 21:20-21 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 21 in context

Scripture Focus

20Therefore they commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards;

21And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

Judges 21:20-21

Biblical Context

The passage records a group plotting to lie in wait and take wives from the daughters of Shiloh.

Neville's Inner Vision

All that transpires in this page is a movement within consciousness. The 'Benjamin' band is a state of mind—the urge to secure, to possess, to command. The vineyards are the subconscious fields where possibilities ripen, and the 'daughters of Shiloh' are living energies—beauty, creativity, relationship—appearing in awareness as they dance. The command to lie in wait is the mind’s habit of watching and weighing, a strategy born of separation. In Neville’s key, you do not seize another’s life; you revise your state. You assume you are already united with the very energy you seek, and you bless the energies as if they belong to you now. When you stand in the I AM, the right-hand, whole self, these energies become yours not by force but by a natural alignment. The story is a guide to inner unity: abandon the old plan for possession and instead dwell in the awareness that harmony has always been present, awaiting your recognition. The inner drama resolves as consciousness chooses one united expression.

Practice This Now

Imaginative act: Sit quietly, breathe, and consciously assume the feeling of unity with your desired relationship now—see the dancing energies of life entering your inner vineyards and coming to rest in the land of your I AM.