Genesis 28:12
28:12 and had a dream.
He saw
a stairway
erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it
Genesis 31:24
31:24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him,
“Be careful
that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”
Genesis 37:5
37:5 Joseph had a dream, and when he told his brothers about it, they hated him even more.
Genesis 37:9
37:9 Then he had another dream, and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said. “I had another dream. The sun, the moon, and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
Genesis 40:8
40:8 They told him, “We both had dreams,
but there is no one to interpret them.” Joseph responded, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell them
to me.”
Genesis 41:1-36
Joseph’s Rise to Power
41:1 At the end of two full years Pharaoh had a dream. As he was standing by the Nile,
41:2 seven fine-looking, fat cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.
41:3 Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river.
41:4 The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
41:5 Then he fell asleep again and had a second dream: There were seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, healthy and good.
41:6 Then seven heads of grain, thin and burned by the east wind, were sprouting up after them.
41:7 The thin heads swallowed up the seven healthy and full heads. Then Pharaoh woke up and realized it was a dream.
41:8 In the morning he was troubled, so he called for all the diviner-priests of Egypt and all its wise men. Pharaoh told them his dreams, but no one could interpret them for him.
41:9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
41:10 Pharaoh was enraged with his servants, and he put me in prison in the house of the captain of the guards – me and the chief baker.
41:11 We each had a dream one night; each of us had a dream with its own meaning.
41:12 Now a young man, a Hebrew, a servant of the captain of the guards, was with us there. We told him our dreams, and he interpreted the meaning of each of our respective dreams for us.
41:13 It happened just as he had said to us – Pharaoh restored me to my office, but he impaled the baker.”
41:14 Then Pharaoh summoned Joseph. So they brought him quickly out of the dungeon; he shaved himself, changed his clothes, and came before Pharaoh.
41:15 Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. But I have heard about you, that you can interpret dreams.”
41:16 Joseph replied to Pharaoh, “It is not within my power, but God will speak concerning the welfare of Pharaoh.”
41:17 Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “In my dream I was standing by the edge of the Nile.
41:18 Then seven fat and fine-looking cows were coming up out of the Nile, and they grazed in the reeds.
41:19 Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!
41:20 The lean, bad-looking cows ate up the seven fat cows.
41:21 When they had eaten them, no one would have known that they had done so, for they were just as bad-looking as before. Then I woke up.
41:22 I also saw in my dream seven heads of grain growing on one stalk, full and good.
41:23 Then seven heads of grain, withered and thin and burned with the east wind, were sprouting up after them.
41:24 The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. So I told all this to the diviner-priests, but no one could tell me its meaning.”
41:25 Then Joseph said to Pharaoh, “Both dreams of Pharaoh have the same meaning. God has revealed to Pharaoh what he is about to do.
41:26 The seven good cows represent seven years, and the seven good heads of grain represent seven years. Both dreams have the same meaning.
41:27 The seven lean, bad-looking cows that came up after them represent seven years, as do the seven empty heads of grain burned with the east wind. They represent seven years of famine.
41:28 This is just what I told Pharaoh: God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
41:29 Seven years of great abundance are coming throughout the whole land of Egypt.
41:30 But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land.
41:31 The previous abundance of the land will not be remembered because of the famine that follows, for the famine will be very severe.
41:32 The dream was repeated to Pharaoh because the matter has been decreed by God, and God will make it happen soon.
41:33 “So now Pharaoh should look for a wise and discerning man and give him authority over all the land of Egypt.
41:34 Pharaoh should do this – he should appoint officials throughout the land to collect one-fifth of the produce of the land of Egypt during the seven years of abundance.
41:35 They should gather all the excess food during these good years that are coming. By Pharaoh’s authority they should store up grain so the cities will have food, and they should preserve it.
41:36 This food should be held in storage for the land in preparation for the seven years of famine that will occur throughout the land of Egypt. In this way the land will survive the famine.”
Job 4:12-13
Ungodly Complainers Provoke God’s Wrath
4:12 “Now a word was secretly brought to me,
and my ear caught a whisper of it.
4:13 In the troubling thoughts of the dreams in the night
when a deep sleep falls on men,
Job 33:15
33:15 In a dream, a night vision,
when deep sleep falls on people
as they sleep in their beds.
Matthew 1:20
1:20 When he had contemplated this, an
angel of the Lord
appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, because the child conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 2:12-13
2:12 After being warned in a dream not to return to Herod,
they went back by another route to their own country.
The Escape to Egypt
2:13 After they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, “Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to look for the child to kill him.”
Matthew 27:19
27:19 As
he was sitting on the judgment seat,
his wife sent a message
to him:
“Have nothing to do with that innocent man;
I have suffered greatly as a result of a dream
about him today.”