Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 4:1-8 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 4 in context

Scripture Focus

1But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews.

2And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned?

3Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall.

4Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

5And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

6So built we the wall; and all the wall was joined together unto the half thereof: for the people had a mind to work.

7But it came to pass, that when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth,

8And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.

Nehemiah 4:1-8

Biblical Context

Opponents mock and threaten to hinder the builders, yet they persevere and the wall rises. The breaches begin to close as unity and purpose hold.

Neville's Inner Vision

Take up the scene as a symbolic drama of your own consciousness. Sanballat's contempt and Tobiah's taunt are the inner voices of doubt that whisper your efforts are small, that the dream cannot endure. In Neville's terms they are not outside enemies, but states of awareness opposed to the feast you are preparing in your heart. The wall is not bricks but a alignment of inner commitments: your decision, your discipline, your focus. When they say, 'What do these feeble Jews?' you answer inwardly with the recognition that the I AM within you is greater than any outward heckling. The command, 'Hear, O our God; ... turn their reproach,' becomes a directive to address the notion of fear with your most vivid realization of health, order, and completion. As you persist, the wall joins from one end to the other, and the breach begins to close. This is not triumph over others but over the scattered thoughts that would break your city. Faith, then, is a constant act of imagining the finished state until it feels inevitable.

Practice This Now

Imaginative Act: Close your eyes and assume the wall of your inner city is complete now; affirm, 'I AM the builder of my reality,' and feel the unity of purpose sealing every imagined fracture.