Genesis 40:5 Cross References

Genesis 40:5

5: One night the cup-bearer and the baker each had a dream, and each dream had its own meaning.

"I said to him, `O Belteshazzar, master magician, I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in you and that no mystery is too great for you to solve. Now tell me what my dream means.

And they replied, "We both had dreams last night, but there is no one here to tell us what they mean.Interpreting dreams is God's business," Joseph replied. "Tell me what you saw."

That night the king had trouble sleeping, so he ordered an attendant to bring the historical records of his kingdom so they could be read to him.

One night Joseph had a dream and promptly reported the details to his brothers, causing them to hate him even more.
"Listen to this dream," he announced.
"We were out in the field tying up bundles of grain. My bundle stood up, and then your bundles all gathered around and bowed low before it!"
"So you are going to be our king, are you?" his brothers taunted. And they hated him all the more for his dream and what he had said.
Then Joseph had another dream and told his brothers about it. "Listen to this dream," he said. "The sun, moon, and eleven stars bowed low before me!"

Gideon crept up just as a man was telling his friend about a dream. The man said, "I had this dream, and in my dream a loaf of barley bread came tumbling down into the Midianite camp. It hit a tent, turned it over, and knocked it flat!"
His friend said, "Your dream can mean only one thing--God has given Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite, victory over all the armies united with Midian!"

Then the LORD told Abram, "Leave your country, your relatives, and your father's house, and go to the land that I will show you.
I will cause you to become the father of a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and I will make you a blessing to others.
I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All the families of the earth will be blessed through you."
So Abram departed as the LORD had instructed him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran.
He took his wife, Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all his wealth--his livestock and all the people who had joined his household at Haran--and finally arrived in Canaan.

But one night God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, "You are a dead man, for that woman you took is married."

And the LORD said to them, "Now listen to me! Even with prophets, I the LORD communicate by visions and dreams.

He speaks in dreams, in visions of the night when deep sleep falls on people as they lie in bed.
He whispers in their ear and terrifies them with his warning.
He causes them to change their minds; he keeps them from pride.

Earlier, during the first year of King Belshazzar's reign in Babylon, Daniel had a dream and saw visions as he lay in his bed. He wrote the dream down, and this is what he saw.
In my vision that night, I, Daniel, saw a great storm churning the surface of a great sea, with strong winds blowing from every direction.
Then four huge beasts came up out of the water, each different from the others.
The first beast was like a lion with eagles' wings. As I watched, its wings were pulled off, and it was left standing with its two hind feet on the ground, like a human being. And a human mind was given to it.
Then I saw a second beast, and it looked like a bear. It was rearing up on one side, and it had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth. And I heard a voice saying to it, "Get up! Devour many people!"

Two years later, Pharaoh dreamed that he was standing on the bank of the Nile River.
In his dream, seven fat, healthy-looking cows suddenly came up out of the river and began grazing along its bank.
Then seven other cows came up from the river, but these were very ugly and gaunt. These cows went over and stood beside the fat cows.
Then the thin, ugly cows ate the fat ones! At this point in the dream, Pharaoh woke up.
Soon he fell asleep again and had a second dream. This time he saw seven heads of grain on one stalk, with every kernel well formed and plump.

But one night I had a dream that greatly frightened me; I saw visions that terrified me as I lay in my bed.

One night during the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had a dream that disturbed him so much that he couldn't sleep.
He called in his magicians, enchanters, sorcerers, and astrologers, and he demanded that they tell him what he had dreamed. As they stood before the king,
he said, "I have had a dream that troubles me. Tell me what I dreamed, for I must know what it means."

"Upon hearing this, Daniel (also known as Belteshazzar) was overcome for a time, aghast at the meaning of the dream. Finally, the king said to him, `Belteshazzar, don't be alarmed by the dream and what it means.'"Belteshazzar replied, `Oh, how I wish the events foreshadowed in this dream would happen to your enemies, my lord, and not to you!

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