Given to Gentiles
The Lord spoke in a dream to the heathen king Abimelech, not merely for Abraham�s sake, but because, says Scripture, God knew Abimelech had taken Abraham�s wife with a clear conscience and the Lord wanted to keep him from sinning (Genesis 20:3, 6). The Lord also appeared to Laban (who was not a descendent of Abraham) in a dream (Genesis 31:34). By a dream he revealed the future to Egypt�s Pharaoh (Genesis 41:25), as he also did centuries later to Babylon�s King Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 2:28). Later, God warned Nebuchadnezzar that he would suffer judgment in order to show him that �the most high rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he chooses� (Daniel 4:25). Daniel advised the king to change his ways (Daniel 4:27). Apparently Nebuchadnezzar failed to follow this advice, but through God�s intervention in his life, he came to know the true God in a deeper way and he praised God for it (Daniel 4:34-37).