DREAM

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• Genesis 20:3

  But God came to Abimelech in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man, because of the woman whom you have taken. For she is a man’s wife.”

• Genesis 28:12

  He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set upon the earth, and its top reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

• Genesis 31:10

  During mating season, I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.

• Genesis 31:11

  The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

• Genesis 31:12

  He said, ‘Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.

• Genesis 31:13

  I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar, where you vowed a vow to me. Now arise, get out from this land, and return to the land of your birth.’”

• Genesis 31:24

  God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”

• Genesis 37:5

  Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

• Genesis 37:6

  He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

• Genesis 37:7

  for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

• Genesis 37:8

  His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

• Genesis 37:9

  He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

• Genesis 37:10

  He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”

• Genesis 40:8

  They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”

• Genesis 40:9

  The chief cup bearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, “In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,

• Genesis 40:10

  and in the vine were three branches. It was as though it budded, it blossomed, and its clusters produced ripe grapes.

• Genesis 40:11

  Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.”

• Genesis 40:12

  Joseph said to him, “This is its interpretation: the three branches are three days.

• Genesis 40:13

  Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cup bearer.

• Genesis 40:14

  But remember me when it will be well with you, and please show kindness to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.

• Genesis 40:15

  For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.”

• Genesis 40:16

  When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, “I also was in my dream, and behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

• Genesis 40:17

  In the uppermost basket there were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds ate them out of the basket on my head.”

• Genesis 40:18

  Joseph answered, “This is its interpretation. The three baskets are three days.

• Genesis 40:19

  Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

• Genesis 40:20

  On the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cup bearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.

• Genesis 40:21

  He restored the chief cup bearer to his position again, and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand;

• Genesis 40:22

  but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

• Genesis 40:23

  Yet the chief cup bearer didn’t remember Joseph, but forgot him.

• Genesis 41:1

  At the end of two full years, Pharaoh dreamed: and behold, he stood by the river.

• Genesis 41:2

  Behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, sleek and fat, and they fed in the marsh grass.

• Genesis 41:3

  Behold, seven other cattle came up after them out of the river, ugly and thin, and stood by the other cattle on the brink of the river.

• Genesis 41:4

  The ugly and thin cattle ate up the seven sleek and fat cattle. So Pharaoh awoke.

• Genesis 41:5

  He slept and dreamed a second time: and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, healthy and good.

• Genesis 41:6

  Behold, seven heads of grain, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

• Genesis 41:7

  The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven healthy and full ears. Pharaoh awoke, and behold, it was a dream.

• Genesis 41:8

  In the morning, his spirit was troubled, and he sent and called for all of Egypt’s magicians and wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but there was no one who could interpret them to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:9

  Then the chief cup bearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “I remember my faults today.

• Genesis 41:10

  Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, me and the chief baker.

• Genesis 41:11

  We dreamed a dream in one night, I and he. We dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

• Genesis 41:12

  There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.

• Genesis 41:13

  As he interpreted to us, so it was. He restored me to my office, and he hanged him.”

• Genesis 41:14

  Then Pharaoh sent and called Joseph, and they brought him hastily out of the dungeon. He shaved himself, changed his clothing, and came in to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:15

  Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”

• Genesis 41:16

  Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”

• Genesis 41:17

  Pharaoh spoke to Joseph, “In my dream, behold, I stood on the brink of the river:

• Genesis 41:18

  and behold, there came up out of the river seven cattle, fat and sleek. They fed in the marsh grass,

• Genesis 41:19

  and behold, seven other cattle came up after them, poor and very ugly and thin, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for ugliness.

• Genesis 41:20

  The thin and ugly cattle ate up the first seven fat cattle,

• Genesis 41:21

  and when they had eaten them up, it couldn’t be known that they had eaten them, but they were still ugly, as at the beginning. So I awoke.

• Genesis 41:22

  I saw in my dream, and behold, seven heads of grain came up on one stalk, full and good:

• Genesis 41:23

  and behold, seven heads of grain, withered, thin, and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

• Genesis 41:24

  The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians, but there was no one who could explain it to me.”

• Genesis 41:25

  Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:26

  The seven good cattle are seven years; and the seven good heads of grain are seven years. The dream is one.

• Genesis 41:27

  The seven thin and ugly cattle that came up after them are seven years, and also the seven empty heads of grain blasted with the east wind; they will be seven years of famine.

• Genesis 41:28

  That is the thing which I spoke to Pharaoh. What God is about to do he has shown to Pharaoh.

• Genesis 41:29

  Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:30

  There will arise after them seven years of famine, and all the plenty will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will consume the land,

• Genesis 41:31

  and the plenty will not be known in the land by reason of that famine which follows; for it will be very grievous.

• Genesis 41:32

  The dream was doubled to Pharaoh, because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.

• Genesis 41:33

  “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.

• Genesis 41:34

  Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.

• Genesis 41:35

  Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and lay up grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.

• Genesis 41:36

  The food will be for a store to the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; that the land not perish through the famine.”

• Genesis 46:2

  God spoke to Israel in the visions of the night, and said, “Jacob, Jacob!” He said, “Here I am.”

• Numbers 12:6

  He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

• Deuteronomy 13:1

  If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

• Deuteronomy 13:2

  and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them”;

• Deuteronomy 13:3

  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

• Deuteronomy 13:4

  You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

• Deuteronomy 13:5

  That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

• Judges 7:13

  When Gideon had come, behold, there was a man telling a dream to his fellow. He said, “Behold, I dreamed a dream; and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian, and came to the tent, and struck it so that it fell, and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat.”

• 1 Kings 3:3

  Solomon loved Yahweh, walking in the statutes of David his father; except that he sacrificed and burned incense in the high places.

• 1 Kings 3:4

  The king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there; for that was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar.

• 1 Kings 3:5

  In Gibeon, Yahweh appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask for what I should give you.”

• 1 Kings 3:6

  Solomon said, “You have shown to your servant David my father great loving kindness, because he walked before you in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart with you. You have kept for him this great loving kindness, that you have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is today.

• 1 Kings 3:7

  Now, Yahweh my God, you have made your servant king instead of David my father. I am just a little child. I don’t know how to go out or come in.

• 1 Kings 3:8

  Your servant is among your people which you have chosen, a great people, that can’t be numbered or counted for multitude.

• 1 Kings 3:9

  Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”

• 1 Kings 3:10

  This request pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.

• 1 Kings 3:11

  God said to him, “Because you have asked this thing, and have not asked for yourself long life, nor have you asked for riches for yourself, nor have you asked for the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern justice;

• 1 Kings 3:12

  behold, I have done according to your word. Behold, I have given you a wise and understanding heart; so that there has been no one like you before you, and after you none will arise like you.

• 1 Kings 3:13

  I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.

• 1 Kings 3:14

  If you will walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as your father David walked, then I will lengthen your days.”

• 1 Kings 3:15

  Solomon awoke; and behold, it was a dream. Then he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of Yahweh’s covenant, and offered up burnt offerings, offered peace offerings, and made a feast for all his servants.

• Job 4:12

  “Now a thing was secretly brought to me. My ear received a whisper of it.

• Job 4:13

  In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falls on men,

• Job 4:14

  fear came on me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

• Job 4:15

  Then a spirit passed before my face. The hair of my flesh stood up.

• Job 4:16

  It stood still, but I couldn’t discern its appearance. A form was before my eyes. Silence, then I heard a voice, saying,

• Job 4:17

  ‘Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

• Job 4:18

  Behold, he puts no trust in his servants. He charges his angels with error.

• Job 4:19

  How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

• Job 4:20

  Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

• Job 4:21

  Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

• Job 20:8

  He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found. Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

• Ecclesiastes 5:3

  For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.

• Ecclesiastes 5:7

  For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.

• Isaiah 29:7

  The multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all who fight against her and her stronghold, and who distress her, will be like a dream, a vision of the night.

• Isaiah 29:8

  It will be like when a hungry man dreams, and behold, he eats; but he awakes, and his hunger isn’t satisfied; or like when a thirsty man dreams, and behold, he drinks; but he awakes, and behold, he is faint, and he is still thirsty. The multitude of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion will be like that.

• Jeremiah 23:25

  “I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

• Jeremiah 23:26

  How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets who prophesy lies, even the prophets of the deceit of their own heart?

• Jeremiah 23:27

  They intend to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they each tell his neighbor, as their fathers forgot my name because of Baal.

• Jeremiah 23:28

  The prophet who has a dream, let him tell a dream; and he who has my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the straw to the wheat?” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 23:29

  “Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

• Jeremiah 23:30

  “Therefore behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who each steal my words from his neighbor.

• Jeremiah 23:31

  Behold, I am against the prophets,” says Yahweh, “who use their tongues, and say, ‘He says.’

• Jeremiah 23:32

  Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them, nor command them; neither do they profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 27:9

  But as for you, don’t you listen to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreams, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak to you, saying, “You shall not serve the king of Babylon;”

• Jeremiah 29:8

  For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you, and your diviners, deceive you; neither listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

• Daniel 2:16

  Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would appoint him a time, and he would show the king the interpretation.

• Daniel 2:17

  Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions:

• Daniel 2:18

  that they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his companions should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.

• Daniel 2:19

  Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a vision of the night. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

• Daniel 2:20

  Daniel answered, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever; for wisdom and might are his.

• Daniel 2:21

  He changes the times and the seasons; he removes kings, and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise, and knowledge to those who have understanding;

• Daniel 2:22

  he reveals the deep and secret things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.

• Daniel 2:23

  I thank you, and praise you, you God of my fathers, who have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we desired of you; for you have made known to us the king’s matter.

• Daniel 2:28

  but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:

• Daniel 2:29

  as for you, O king, your thoughts came on your bed, what should happen hereafter; and he who reveals secrets has made known to you what shall happen.

• Daniel 2:30

  But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.

• Joel 2:28

  “It will happen afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; and your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your old men will dream dreams. Your young men will see visions.

• Zechariah 10:2

  For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

• Matthew 1:20

  But when he thought about these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, don’t be afraid to take to yourself Mary, your wife, for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.

• Matthew 1:21

  She shall give birth to a son. You shall call his name Jesus, for it is he who shall save his people from their sins.”

• Matthew 2:13

  Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.”

• Matthew 2:19

  But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying,

• Matthew 2:20

  “Arise and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel, for those who sought the young child’s life are dead.”

• Matthew 2:21

  He arose and took the young child and his mother, and came into the land of Israel.

• Matthew 2:22

  But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in the place of his father, Herod, he was afraid to go there. Being warned in a dream, he withdrew into the region of Galilee,

• Matthew 27:19

  While he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered many things today in a dream because of him.”

• Acts 2:17

  ‘It will be in the last days, says God, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh. Your sons and your daughters will prophesy. Your young men will see visions. Your old men will dream dreams.

• Acts 10:3

  At about the ninth hour of the day, he clearly saw in a vision an angel of God coming to him, and saying to him, “Cornelius!”

• Acts 10:4

  He, fastening his eyes on him, and being frightened, said, “What is it, Lord?” He said to him, “Your prayers and your gifts to the needy have gone up for a memorial before God.

• Acts 10:5

  Now send men to Joppa, and get Simon, who is also called Peter.

• Acts 10:6

  He lodges with a tanner named Simon, whose house is by the seaside.

• Acts 10:10

  He became hungry and desired to eat, but while they were preparing, he fell into a trance.

• Acts 10:11

  He saw heaven opened and a certain container descending to him, like a great sheet let down by four corners on the earth,

• Acts 10:12

  in which were all kinds of four-footed animals of the earth, wild animals, reptiles, and birds of the sky.

• Acts 10:13

  A voice came to him, “Rise, Peter, kill and eat!”

• Acts 10:14

  But Peter said, “Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten anything that is common or unclean.”

• Acts 10:15

  A voice came to him again the second time, “What God has cleansed, you must not call unclean.”

• Acts 10:16

  This was done three times, and immediately the vessel was received up into heaven.

• Acts 16:9

  A vision appeared to Paul in the night. There was a man of Macedonia standing, begging him, and saying, “Come over into Macedonia and help us.”

• Acts 23:11

  The following night, the Lord stood by him, and said, “Cheer up, Paul, for as you have testified about me at Jerusalem, so you must testify also at Rome.”

• Acts 28:23

  When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about God’s Kingdom, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.

• Acts 28:24

  Some believed the things which were spoken, and some disbelieved.