Note 3 at Mt 1:20: There are six times God spoke by dreams in the New Testament. Joseph had four of them (Mt 1:20; 2:13, 19, and 22), the wise men one (Mt 2:12), and Pilate's wife one (Mt 27:19).

There are fifteen definite times God spoke by dreams in the Old Testament. Six of these occurred to Jews: twice to Jacob (Ge 28:12 and 31:10-13), twice to Joseph (Ge 37:5 and 9), once to Solomon (1Ki 3:5-15), and once to Daniel (Da 7:1).

God spoke by dreams to Gentile kings five times: once to Abimelech (Ge 20:3), twice to Pharaoh (Ge 41:1-8), and twice to Nebuchadnezzar (Da 2:1 and 4:5). God also spoke to Laban, Jacob's father-in-law, by a dream (Ge 31:24); to the chief butler and the chief baker of Pharaoh (Ge 40:9 and 16); and to one of the enemy soldiers in the Midianite army that was fighting against Gideon (Jdg 7:13).

Eliphaz, one of Job's friends, also had a dream (Job 4:12-13), but since he was rebuked by God for the counsel that he gave (Job 42:7), it is uncertain whether that dream came from God. However, by comparing Eliphaz's terminology in Job 4:13 with Ge 46:2, it is probable that Jacob's "vision of the night" was also a dream. That would bring the number of times God spoke by dreams in the Old Testament to sixteen.

The Word of God also speaks against false dreams of false prophets (Jer 23:27-32, 29:8; and Zec 10:2).