Neville Goddard on Judges 9:16-19 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Judges 9 in context

Scripture Focus

16Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;

17(For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

18And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)

19If ye then have dealt truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice ye in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you:

Judges 9:16-19

Biblical Context

The passage questions whether the people have dealt truly with Jerubbaal and his house after delivering them, and invites them to rejoice in the king they set up if that fidelity stands.

Neville's Inner Vision

From the I AM’s vantage, this scene is a test of your inner alignment. The people’s reception of Abimelech is not about a man’s power but about the state of consciousness you have allowed to rule. If you have acted truly and sincerely with Jerubbaal and his house—honoring the deliverer you are within—then the king you set over your inner city is a reflection of that fidelity. The stone on which the crowd acted marks a fixed point of imagination, and the seventy sons symbolize old thoughts dissolved by your present assumption. To rejoice in Abimelech is to affirm the king your present state has become through your past faith; to deny that joy is to deny the truth of your own inner sovereignty. Your reality follows your inner covenant: what you have dealt with in truth within your inner chamber becomes the outward form you inhabit. Until you decide this inward truth, outer kingship remains only an appearance.

Practice This Now

Take a moment now to revise: imagine you are Jerubbaal’s house and you are true and sincere with your inner deliverer. Place your hand on your chest, breathe, and declare: I deal truly with my higher self, and I rejoice in the king I have chosen today.