Neville Goddard on Nahum 2:8-9 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nahum 2 in context

Scripture Focus

8But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

9Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

Nahum 2:8-9

Biblical Context

Nahum 2:8-9 presents Nineveh as an ancient pool whose waters seem ample, yet the people flee and fail to look back; the spoil and glory spoken of point to external wealth that cannot satisfy or endure.

Neville's Inner Vision

To the student of the inward road, this passage is not about a city but a state of consciousness. The 'pool of water' is a mind that mistakes form for truth: when a state is stocked with outward stores—silver, gold, pleasant furniture—it tempts the ego to cling and to flee the moment of inner confrontation. The marching cry, Stand, stand, and yet no one looks back, reveals that in the instant you cling to outer provisions you have forgotten the I AM that dwells within. Nahum speaks of abundance promised in external stores; in Neville's reading, this is the illusion that wealth exists outside you, secured by time and place. The cure is not to deny riches but to revise the belief: abundance is an inside job, an attribute of consciousness you can summon. When you assume the I AM as your source, the external 'spoil' loses its grip; the mind becomes a clear pool that can hold the life of fullness, not through accumulation but through recognition of inner wealth.

Practice This Now

Assume you are the I AM, wealth flowing from within; revise the scene by declaring, 'Abundance is my natural state now.' Feel-it-real by breathing slowly, and imagine an inner pool filling with light, turning outward desires into quiet gratitude.