Numbers 22:20

22:20 God came to Balaam that night, and said to him, “If the men have come to call you, get up and go with them; but the word that I will say to you, that you must do.”

Genesis 20:3

20:3 But God appeared ¹  to Abimelech in a dream at night and said to him, “You are as good as dead ²  because of the woman you have taken, for she is someone else’s wife.” ³ 

Genesis 31:24

31:24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him, ⁴  “Be careful ⁵  that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.” ⁶ 

Genesis 41:25

41:25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. ⁷  God has revealed ⁸  to Pharaoh what he is about to do. ⁹ 

Daniel 2:45

2:45 You saw that a stone was cut from a mountain, but not by human hands; it smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold into pieces. The great God has made known to the king what will occur in the future. ¹⁰  The dream is certain, and its interpretation is reliable.”

Daniel 4:31-32

4:31 While these words were still on the king’s lips, ¹¹  a voice came down from heaven: “It is hereby announced to you, ¹²  King Nebuchadnezzar, that your kingdom has been removed from you! 4:32 You will be driven from human society, and you will live with the wild animals. You will be fed grass like oxen, and seven periods of time will pass by for you before ¹³  you understand that the Most High is ruler over human kingdoms and gives them to whomever he wishes.”

Matthew 7:22

7:22 On that day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in your name, and in your name cast out demons and do ¹⁴  many powerful deeds?’

Matthew 24:24

24:24 For false messiahs ¹⁵  and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.

John 11:51

11:51 (Now he did not say this on his own, ¹⁶  but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation, ¹⁷ 

¹ tn Heb “came.”

² tn Heb “Look, you [are] dead.” The Hebrew construction uses the particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with a second person pronominal particle הִנֵּה (hinneh) with by the participle. It is a highly rhetorical expression.

³ tn Heb “and she is owned by an owner.” The disjunctive clause is causal or explanatory in this case.

⁴ tn Heb “said to him.”

⁵ tn Heb “watch yourself,” which is a warning to be on guard against doing something that is inappropriate.

⁶ tn Heb “lest you speak with Jacob from good to evil.” The precise meaning of the expression, which occurs only here and in v. 29, is uncertain. Since Laban proceeded to speak to Jacob at length, it cannot mean to maintain silence. Nor does it seem to be a prohibition against criticism (see vv. 26-30). Most likely it refers to a formal pronouncement, whether it be a blessing or a curse. Laban was to avoid saying anything to Jacob that would be intended to enhance him or to harm him.

⁷ tn Heb “the dream of Pharaoh is one.”

⁸ tn Heb “declared.”

⁹ tn The active participle here indicates what is imminent.

¹⁰ tn Aram “after this.”

¹¹ tn Aram “in the mouth of the king.”

¹² tn Aram “to you they say.”

¹³ tn Aram “until.”

¹⁴ tn Grk “and in your name do.” This phrase was not repeated here in the translation for stylistic reasons.

¹⁵ tn Or “false christs”; both “Christ” (Greek) and “Messiah” (Hebrew and Aramaic) mean “one who has been anointed.”

¹⁶ tn Grk “say this from himself.”

¹⁷ tn The word “Jewish” is not in the Greek text, but is clearly implied by the context (so also NIV; TEV “the Jewish people”).