Visions
54 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
32 sections
- False Prophets Pretended to Have Seen
- Frequently Difficult and Perplexing to Those Who Received
- God Especially Made Himself Known to Prophets By
- God often Made Known his Will By
- Often Accompanied: A Representative of the Divine Person and Glory
- Often Accompanied: An Appearance of Angels
- Often Accompanied: An Appearance of Human Beings
- Often Accompanied: An Audible Voice from Heaven
- Often Communicated in a Trance
- Often Communicated in the Night Season
- Often Multiplied for the Benefit of the People
- Often Recorded for the Benefit of the People
- Sometimes Withheld for a Long Season
- The Prophets of God Skilled in Interpreting
- The Withholding of a Great Calamity
- To Abraham
- To Amos
- To Ananias
- To Cornelius
- To Daniel (See Chapters 7, 8, and 10 of Daniel)
- To Eliphaz
- To Ezekiel (See Chapters 10, 40-48 of Ezekiel)
- To Isaiah
- To Jacob
- To John (See Also Rev Chapters 4 - 22)
- To Moses
- To Nathan
- To Nebuchadnezzar
- To Paul
- To Peter
- To Samuel
- To Zechariah
False Prophets Pretended to Have Seen
- Jeremiah 14:14 “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.
- Jeremiah 23:16 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
Frequently Difficult and Perplexing to Those Who Received
- Daniel 7:15 I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit, and the visions in my mind alarmed me.
- Daniel 8:15 While I, Daniel, was watching the vision and trying to understand it, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
- Acts 10:17 While Peter was puzzling over the meaning of the vision, the men sent by Cornelius found Simon’s house and approached the gate.
God Especially Made Himself Known to Prophets By
- Numbers 12:6 He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
God often Made Known his Will By
- Psalm 89:19 You once spoke in a vision; to Your godly ones You said, “I have bestowed help on a warrior; I have exalted one chosen from the people.
Often Accompanied: A Representative of the Divine Person and Glory
- Isaiah 6:1 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple.
Often Accompanied: An Appearance of Angels
- Luke 1:11 Just then an angel of the Lord appeared to Zechariah, standing at the right side of the altar of incense.
- Luke 1:22 When he came out and was unable to speak to them, they realized he had seen a vision in the temple. He kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak.
- Luke 24:23 but they did not find His body. They came and told us they had seen a vision of angels, who said that Jesus was alive.
- Acts 10:3 One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
Often Accompanied: An Appearance of Human Beings
Often Accompanied: An Audible Voice from Heaven
- Genesis 15:1 After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
- 1 Samuel 3:4–5 Then the LORD called to Samuel, and he answered, “Here I am.” …
Often Communicated in a Trance
- Numbers 24:16 the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:
- Acts 11:5 “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision of something like a large sheet being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came right down to me.
Often Communicated in the Night Season
- Genesis 46:2 And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
- Daniel 2:19 During the night, the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he blessed the God of heaven
Often Multiplied for the Benefit of the People
- Hosea 12:10 I spoke through the prophets and multiplied their visions; I gave parables through the prophets.
Often Recorded for the Benefit of the People
- Habakkuk 2:2 Then the LORD answered me: “Write down this vision and clearly inscribe it on tablets, so that a herald may run with it.
Sometimes Withheld for a Long Season
- 1 Samuel 3:1 And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare, and visions were scarce.
The Prophets of God Skilled in Interpreting
- 2 Chronicles 26:5 He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.
- Daniel 1:17 To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. And Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.
The Withholding of a Great Calamity
- Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; but blessed is he who keeps the Law.
- Lamentations 2:9 Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
To Abraham
- Genesis 15:1 After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
To Amos
- Amos 7:1–9 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: He was preparing swarms of locusts just after the king’s harvest, as the late spring crop was coming up. …
- Amos 8:1–6 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit. …
- Amos 9:1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will …
To Ananias
- Acts 9:10–11 In Damascus there was a disciple named Ananias. The Lord spoke to him in a vision, “Ananias!” “Here I am, Lord,” he answered. …
To Cornelius
- Acts 10:3 One day at about the ninth hour, he had a clear vision of an angel of God who came to him and said, “Cornelius!”
To Daniel (See Chapters 7, 8, and 10 of Daniel)
- Daniel 2:19 During the night, the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision, and he blessed the God of heaven
To Eliphaz
- Job 4:13–16 In disquieting visions in the night, when deep sleep falls on men, …
To Ezekiel (See Chapters 10, 40-48 of Ezekiel)
- Ezekiel 1:4–14 I looked and saw a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire was a gleam like amber, …
- Ezekiel 8:2–14 Then I looked and saw a figure like that of a man. From His waist down His appearance was like fire, and from His waist up He was as bright as the gleam of amber. …
- Ezekiel 11:24–25 And the Spirit lifted me up and carried me back to Chaldea, to the exiles in the vision given by the Spirit of God. After the vision had gone up from me, …
- Ezekiel 37:1–10 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones. …
To Isaiah
- Isaiah 6:1–8 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord seated on a throne, high and exalted; and the train of His robe filled the temple. …
To Jacob
- Genesis 46:2 And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.
To John (See Also Rev Chapters 4 - 22)
- Revelation 1:12 Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me. And having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands,
To Moses
- Exodus 3:2–3 There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from within a bush. Moses saw the bush ablaze with fire, but it was not consumed. …
- Acts 7:30–32 After forty years had passed, an angel appeared to Moses in the flames of a burning bush in the desert near Mount Sinai. …
To Nathan
- 2 Samuel 7:4 But that night the word of the LORD came to Nathan, saying,
- 2 Samuel 7:17 So Nathan relayed to David all the words of this entire revelation.
To Nebuchadnezzar
- Daniel 2:28 But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and He has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will happen in the latter days. Your dream and the visions that came into your mind as you lay on your bed were these:
- Daniel 4:5 I had a dream, and it frightened me; while I was in my bed, the images and visions in my mind alarmed me.
To Paul
- Acts 9:3 As Saul drew near to Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
- Acts 9:6 “Now get up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”
- Acts 16:9 During the night, Paul had a vision of a man of Macedonia standing and pleading with him, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.”
- Acts 18:9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision: “Do not be afraid; keep on speaking; do not be silent.
- Acts 22:18 and saw the Lord saying to me, ‘Hurry! Leave Jerusalem quickly, because the people here will not accept your testimony about Me.’
- Acts 27:23 For just last night an angel of the God to whom I belong and whom I serve stood beside me
- 2 Chronicles 12:1–4 After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD. …
To Peter
- Acts 10:9–17 The next day at about the sixth hour, as the men were approaching the city on their journey, Peter went up on the roof to pray. …
To Samuel
- 1 Samuel 3:2–15 And at that time Eli, whose eyesight had grown so dim that he could not see, was lying in his room. …
To Zechariah
- Zechariah 1:8 I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
- Zechariah 3:1 Then the angel showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, with Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him.
- Zechariah 4:2 “What do you see?” he asked. “I see a solid gold lampstand,” I replied, “with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven spouts to the lamps.
- Zechariah 5:2 “What do you see?” asked the angel. “I see a flying scroll,” I replied, “twenty cubits long and ten cubits wide.”
- Zechariah 6:1 And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains — mountains of bronze.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.