Daniel 2:1
In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar saw a dream, and his spirit was terrified, and his dream fled from him.
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Genesis 41:1After two years, Pharaoh saw a dream. He thought himself to be standing above a river,
2 Chronicles 36:5Jehoiakim was twenty-five years old when he had begun to reign, and he reigned for eleven years in Jerusalem. And he did evil before the Lord his God.
Job 33:15Through a dream in a vision of the night, when a deep sleep falls over men, and they are sleeping in their beds,
Daniel 1:1In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
Daniel 4:2I saw a dream that terrified me, and my thoughts on my bed and the visions in my head disturbed me.
Daniel 6:18And the king departed into his house, and he went to bed without eating, and food was not set before him, moreover, even sleep fled from him.
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 →