Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and no man can interpret it, and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream, thou canst interpret it.

And Pharaoh said unto Joseph: In my dream, behold, I stood by the bank of the river:

Moreover I saw in my dream, and behold, seven ears sprang out of one stalk, full and fair.

¶ Then Joseph answered Pharaoh, Both Pharaoh’s dreams are one. God hath showed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

The seven good Kine are seven years, and the seven good ears are seven years: this is one dream.

And therefore the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh the second time, because the thing is established by God, and God hasteth to perform it.

And Joseph remembered the dreams, which he dreamed of them) and he said unto them, Ye are spies, and are come to see the weakness of the land.

And he said, Hear now my words, If there be a Prophet of the Lord among you, I will be known to him by a vision, and will speak unto him by dream.

5 The enticers to idolatry must be slain, seem they never so holy. 6 So near of kindred or of friendship. 12 Or great in multitude or power. If there arise among you a Prophet or a dreamer of dreams, (and give thee a sign or wonder,

Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of the prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams: for the Lord your God proveth you, to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul.

But that Prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, he shall be slain, because he hath spoken to turn you away from the Lord your God (which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and delivered you out of the house of bondage) to thrust thee out of the way, wherein the Lord thy God commanded thee to walk: so shalt thou take the evil away forth of the midst of thee.

And when Gideon was come, behold, a man told a dream unto his neighbor, and said, Behold, I dreamed a dream and lo, a cake of barley bread tumbled from above into the host of Midian, and came into a tent, and smote it that it fell, and overturned it, that the tent fell down.

¶ When Gideon heard the dream told, and the interpretation of the same, he worshipped, and returned unto the host of Israel, and said, Up: for the Lord hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.

Therefore Saul asked counsel of the Lord, and the Lord answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor yet by Prophets.

¶ And Samuel said to Saul, Why hast thou disquieted me, to bring me up? Then Saul answered, I am in great distress: for the Philistines make war against me, and God is departed from me, and answereth me no more, neither by Prophets, neither by dreams: therefore I have called thee, that thou mayest tell me, what I shall do.

In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

And when Solomon awoke, behold it was a dream, and he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the Ark of the covenant of the Lord, and offered burnt offerings, and made peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

Then fearest thou me with dreams, and astonishest me with visions.

He shall flee away as a dream, and they shall not find him, and shall pass away as a vision of the night.

In dreams and visions of the night, when sleep falleth upon men, and they sleep upon their beds,

As a dream when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest us up, thou shalt make their image despised.

1 This Psalm was made after the return of the people from Babylon, and showeth that the means of their deliverance was wonderful after the seventy years of captivity forspoken by Jeremiah, in Jer. 25:12 and 29:10.

A song of degrees, or Psalm of David.

When the Lord brought again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.

For as a dream cometh by the multitude of business: so the voice of a fool is in the multitude of words.

For in the multitude of dreams, and vanities are also many words: but fear thou God.

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against the altar, shall be as a dream or vision by night: even all they that make the war against it, and strongholds against it, and lay siege unto it.