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).