Genesis 40:8
They responded, “We have seen a dream, and there is no one to interpret it for us.” And Joseph said to them, “Doesn’t interpretation belong to God? Recount for me what you have seen.”
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In Context
7he consulted them, saying, “Why is your expression sadder today than usual?”
9The chief cupbearer explained his dream first. “I saw before me a vine,
Cross References
Genesis 41:16Joseph responded, “Apart from me, God will respond favorably to Pharaoh.”
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,
Isaiah 8:19And though they say to you, “Seek from seers and diviners,” they who hiss in their incantations, should not the people seek from their God, for the sake of the living, and not from the dead?
Daniel 2:28But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, who has revealed to you, king Nebuchadnezzar, what will happen in the latter times. Your dream and the visions of your head upon your bed, are such as these.
Daniel 4:8The tree was great and strong, and its height reached up to heaven. It could be seen all the way to the ends of the entire earth.
Amos 3:7For the Lord God does not fulfill his word, unless he has revealed his secret to his servants the prophets.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 40:6-20
5 And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison. 6 And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad. 7 And he asked Pharaoh's officers that were with him in the ward of his lord's house, saying, Wherefore look ye so sadly to day? 8 And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it.… Read the whole commentary →