The Hyperlinked Bible
Intertextuality Pair
Allusion
Later text
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: As you lay on your bed, O king, your thoughts turned to the future, and the Revealer of Mysteries made known to you what will happen.
Earlier text
Moreover, because the dream was given to Pharaoh in two versions, the matter has been decreed by God, and He will carry it out shortly.
Genesis 41:32 teaches that the doubling of Pharaoh's dream means "the matter has been decreed by God" (נָכוֹן הַדָּבָר, nakhon hadavar) and He "will carry it out shortly." Daniel 2:28-29 presents Nebuchadnezzar's dream as similarly revealing what God has irrevocably determined for the future. Both texts establish that divinely-given dreams are not merely informational but confirmatory -- they certify that the events depicted are certain because God has fixed them. Daniel's vision of successive world empires crushed by a divine stone-kingdom extends this principle from Joseph's seven-year timeframe to the sweep of world history.