Neville Goddard on Nehemiah 5:1-5 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Nehemiah 5 in context

Scripture Focus

1And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.

2For there were that said, We, our sons, and our daughters, are many: therefore we take up corn for them, that we may eat, and live.

3Some also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.

4There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute, and that upon our lands and vineyards.

5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.

Nehemiah 5:1-5

Biblical Context

There is a cry of the people due to debt and fear. They have mortgaged lands and borrowed money to buy corn, risking bondage for their children.

Neville's Inner Vision

The cry of Nehemiah 5 is a cry of your own consciousness awakened to the illusion of lack. The mortgaged lands and borrowed money are not external facts but inner images of limitation you have accepted as real. In truth there is only one possession—the I AM who knows you as free. The dearth you fear is a drought of awareness, a moment when your attention identifies with scarcity rather than with the living abundance of your unity with God. When you hear the cry, do not fight it; invite a shift of state. See yourself not in the bondage of brethren, but as the sole owner of reality, the one who can redeem and reorganize your inner estate. The bondage of your sons and daughters mirrors your own attachment to lesser images. Return to the Father within, and by imagining a fresh order of wealth, you awaken deliverance. The entire scene vanishes as your awareness affirms its own limitless possession and mercy.

Practice This Now

Close your eyes and assume the state of abundance now; feel the release as if all mortgages, debts, and bonds have dissolved by the I AM. Repeat silently: I am free, I own all, and I am that I AM.