And he shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a shard with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cis Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 19:10

Then thou shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with thee, Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 48:12

Therefore, behold, the days come, says LORD, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off. And they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Water

Genesis 21:14-15

And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21:19

And God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. And she went, and filled the bottle with water, and gave the lad drink. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Wine

1 Samuel 1:24

And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to the house of LORD in Shiloh, and the child was young. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 16:20

And Jesse took a donkey with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions

2 Samuel 16:1

And when David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and a hundre Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on don Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use

Joshua 9:13

And these wine-skins, which we filled, were new, and, behold, they are torn. And these our garments and our shoes have become old by reason of the very long journey. Verse Concepts

Joshua 9:14

And the men took of their provision, and did not ask counsel at the mouth of LORD. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » When old, unfit for holding new wine

Matthew 9:17

Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins. Otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins will perish. But they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved. Verse Concepts

Mark 2:22

And no man puts new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins will be destroyed. But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment

Jeremiah 13:12-14

Therefore thou shall speak to them this word. Thus says LORD, the God of Israel: Every bottle shall be filled with wine. And they shall say to thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? Then thou shall say to them, Thus says LORD: Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit upon David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkennes And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says LORD. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

Bottles » Ancients often drank from

Habakkuk 2:15

Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, who adds thy venom, and also makes him drunken, that thou may look on their nakedness! Verse Concepts

Bottles » Some, made of earthenware

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said LORD: Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests, Verse Concepts

Bottles » First mention of, in scripture

Genesis 21:14

Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wine-skin in the smoke. Yet I do not forget thy statutes. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Milk

Judges 4:19

And he said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance

Psalm 56:8

Thou number my wanderings. Put thou my tears into thy bottle. Are they not in thy book? Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient

Job 32:19

Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent. Like new wine-skins it is ready to burst. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds

Job 38:37

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of heaven Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Bottles