Daniel 2:1
In the second year of the rule of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; and his spirit was troubled and his sleep went from him.
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Genesis 41:1Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;
2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for eleven years, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord his God.
Job 33:15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;
Daniel 1:1In the third year of the rule of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem, shutting it in with his forces.
Daniel 4:2It has seemed good to me to make clear the signs and wonders which the Most High God has done with me.
Daniel 6:18\6:17\Then they got a stone and put it over the mouth of the hole, and it was stamped with the king's stamp and with the stamp of the lords, so that the decision about Daniel might not be changed.
Matthew Henry on Daniel 2:1
It was said ( ch. i. 17 ) that Daniel had understanding in dreams; and here we have an early and eminent instance of it, which soon made him famous in the court of Babylon, as Joseph by the same means came to be so in the court of Egypt. This chapter is a history, but it is the history of a prophecy, by a dream and the interpretation of it. Pharaoh's dream, and Joseph's interpretation of it, related only to the years of plenty and famine and the interest of God's Israel in them; but Nebuchadnezzar's dream here,… Read the whole commentary →