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22 Bible Verses About Dreams

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  • Numbers 12:6 names dreams and visions as one way God speaks to prophets, and contrasts them with the face-to-face speech Moses received.
  • Joseph in Genesis 40-41 and Daniel in Daniel 2 both say the interpretation of a dream belongs to God, after the wise men of Egypt and Babylon have failed.
  • Matthew records five dreams around Jesus’ birth, four to Joseph and one to the Magi, and a sixth to Pilate’s wife at his trial.
  • Joel 2:28 promises that old men will dream dreams when the Spirit is poured out, and Peter quotes it at Pentecost in Acts 2:17.
  • Deuteronomy 13, Jeremiah 23 and Jeremiah 29 warn against prophets whose dreams lead the people away from the Lord or speak lies in his name.

The Bible records dreams in which God speaks, warns or shows what is coming, and it warns against prophets who pass off their own dreams as his word. Numbers 12:6 and Job 33:14-16 describe dreams as one way God speaks, and Joel 2:28 promises a day when “your old men will dream dreams.” Jacob at Bethel (Genesis 28:12), Solomon at Gibeon (1 Kings 3:5) and Joseph in Matthew 1:20 receive such dreams, and Joseph son of Jacob and Daniel interpret…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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