So tell me the dream and interpret it for me.” 7 Once more they replied, “Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will interpret it.”Ĩ Then the king answered, “I am certain that you are trying to gain time, because you realize that this is what I have firmly decided: 9 If you do not tell me the dream, there is just one penalty for you. When they came in and stood before the king, 3 he said to them, “I have had a dream that troubles me and I want to know what it means.”Ĥ Then the astrologers answered the king in Aramaic, “O king, live forever! Tell your servants the dream, and we will interpret it.” 5 The king replied to the astrologers, “This is what I have firmly decided: If you do not tell me what my dream was and interpret it, I will have you cut into pieces and your houses turned into piles of rubble.” 6 But if you tell me the dream and explain it, you will receive from me gifts and rewards and great honor. 2 So the king summoned the magicians, enchanters, sorcerers and astrologers to tell him what he had dreamed. What do you think Joseph does? Let’s see.Presentation on theme: "Daniel 2 - Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream."- Presentation transcript:ĭan 2:1 In the second year of his reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams his mind was troubled and he could not sleep. Do you remember reading about that? So Joseph can see that it is God who has sent him down to Egypt, and for a good reason. Joseph remembers that when he was a boy he dreamed about his brothers coming to bow down to him.
Do you know why? It is because Joseph has grown older, and he is dressed in a different kind of clothes. Joseph recognizes his brothers, but they do not recognize him. Do you know who they are? Why, they are his 10 older brothers! Their father Jacob has sent them to Egypt because they were running out of food back home in Caʹnaan. Next to Pharʹaoh, Joseph becomes the most important man in Egypt.Įight years later, during the famine, Joseph sees some men coming. And he chooses Joseph to collect the food, and to store it up. Then the people will not starve during the following seven bad years when very little food will grow.’ So Joseph tells Pharʹaoh: ‘Choose a wise man and put him in charge of collecting food during the seven good years. Then there will be seven years when very little food will grow.’
There will be seven years when a lot of food will grow in Egypt. The seven fat cows and the seven full heads of grain mean seven years, and the seven thin cows and the seven thin heads of grain mean seven more years. Joseph says to Pharʹaoh: ‘The two dreams mean the same thing.
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