But now, give the woman back to her husband. He is a prophet, and he will pray for you, so that you will not die. But if you do not give her back, I warn you that you are going to die, you and all your people."

The LORD said, "I am going to make you like God to the king, and your brother Aaron will speak to him as your prophet.

"Don't harm my chosen servants; do not touch my prophets."

So you actually admit that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!

And so I tell you that I will send you prophets and wise men and teachers; you will kill some of them, crucify others, and whip others in the synagogues and chase them from town to town.

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem! You kill the prophets and stone the messengers God has sent you! How many times I wanted to put my arms around all your people, just as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you would not let me!

But if we say, 'From human beings,' this whole crowd here will stone us, because they are convinced that John was a prophet."

It was he who "gave gifts to people"; he appointed some to be apostles, others to be prophets, others to be evangelists, others to be pastors and teachers.

I will send my two witnesses dressed in sackcloth, and they will proclaim God's message during those 1, 260 days."

The people of the earth will be happy because of the death of these two. They will celebrate and send presents to each other, because those two prophets brought much suffering upon the whole human race.

After this, Abram had a vision and heard the LORD say to him, "Do not be afraid, Abram. I will shield you from danger and give you a great reward."

God spoke to him in a vision at night and called, "Jacob, Jacob!" "Yes, here I am," he answered.

Like a nightmare it disturbed my sleep.

At night when people are asleep, God speaks in dreams and visions.

In a vision long ago you said to your faithful servants, "I have given help to a famous soldier; I have given the throne to one I chose from the people.

On the fifth day of the fourth month of the thirtieth year, I, Ezekiel the priest, son of Buzi, was living with the Jewish exiles by the Chebar River in Babylonia. The sky opened, and I saw a vision of God.

In the vision I suddenly found myself in the walled city of Susa in the province of Elam. I was standing by the Ulai River,

I was left there alone, watching this amazing vision. I had no strength left, and my face was so changed that no one could have recognized me.

Then the angel, who looked like a human being, reached out and touched my lips. I said to him, "Sir, this vision makes me so weak that I can't stop trembling.

I am like a slave standing before his master. How can I talk to you? I have no strength or breath left in me."

An angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing at the right side of the altar where the incense was burned.

When he came out, he could not speak to them, and so they knew that he had seen a vision in the Temple. Unable to say a word, he made signs to them with his hands.

He saw heaven opened and something coming down that looked like a large sheet being lowered by its four corners to the earth.

While Peter was wondering about the meaning of this vision, the men sent by Cornelius had learned where Simon's house was, and they were now standing in front of the gate.

"I went back to Jerusalem, and while I was praying in the Temple, I had a vision,

in which I saw the Lord, as he said to me, 'Hurry and leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your witness about me.'

"During the breeding season I had a dream, and I saw that the male goats that were mating were striped, spotted, and speckled.

The angel of God spoke to me in the dream and said, 'Jacob!' 'Yes,' I answered.

That night the LORD appeared to him in a dream and asked him, "What would you like me to give you?"

The prophet who has had a dream should say it is only a dream, but the prophet who has heard my message should proclaim that message faithfully. What good is straw compared with wheat?

In the first year that Belshazzar was king of Babylonia, I had a dream and saw a vision in the night. I wrote the dream down, and this is the record

While he was thinking about this, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, "Joseph, descendant of David, do not be afraid to take Mary to be your wife. For it is by the Holy Spirit that she has conceived.

Then they returned to their country by another road, since God had warned them in a dream not to go back to Herod.

After they had left, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph and said, "Herod will be looking for the child in order to kill him. So get up, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you to leave."

After Herod died, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt