Dreams of Scripture

Abimelech, of Sarah

Genesis 20:3  

But God came to Abimelech in a dream one night and said to him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken; she is a married woman.”

Jacob

Genesis 28:12  

He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

Jacob, of ring-streaked cattle

Genesis 31:10-13  

 “In breeding season I once had a dream in which I looked up and saw that the male goats mating with the flock were streaked, speckled or spotted.

11 The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob.’ I answered, ‘Here I am.’

12  And he said, ‘Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled or spotted, for I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

13 I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and where you made a vow to me. Now leave this land at once and go back to your native land.’”

Jacob, of Egypt

Genesis 46:2  

And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied.

Laban of Jacob

Genesis 31:24  

Then God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and said to him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”

Joseph, of brethren

Genesis 37:5  

Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him all the more.