And he will let it be broken as a potter's vessel is broken: it will be smashed to bits without mercy; so that there will not be a bit in which one may take fire from the fireplace, or water from the spring. Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 19:10

Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you, Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 48:12

So truly, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send to him men who will have him turned over till there is no more wine in his vessels, and his wine-skins will be completely broken. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Water

Genesis 21:14-15

And early in the morning Abraham got up, and gave Hagar some bread and a water-skin, and put the boy on her back, and sent her away: and she went, wandering in the waste land of Beer-sheba. And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.

Genesis 21:19

Then God made her eyes open, and she saw a water-spring, and she got water in the skin and gave the boy a drink. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Wine

1 Samuel 1:24

Then when she had done so, she took him with her, with a three-year old ox and an ephah of meal and a skin full of wine, and took him to the house of the Lord at Shiloh: now the child was still very young. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 16:20

And Jesse took five cakes of bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them to Saul by David. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions

2 Samuel 16:1

And when David had gone a little way past the top of the slope, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, came to him, with two asses on which were two hundred cakes of bread and a hundred stems of dry grapes and a hundred summer fruits and a skin of wine. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use

Joshua 9:13

And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in them, and now they are cracked as you see; and our clothing and our shoes have become old because of our very long journey here. Verse Concepts

Joshua 9:14

And the men took some of their food, without requesting directions from the Lord. Verse Concepts

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

Matthew 9:17

And men do not put new wine into old wine-skins; or the skins will be burst and the wine will come out, and the skins are of no more use: but they put new wine into new wine-skins, and so the two will be safe. Verse Concepts

Mark 2:22

And no man puts new wine into old wine-skins: or the skins will be burst by the wine, and the wine and the skins will be wasted: but new wine has to be put into new wine-skins. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment

Jeremiah 13:12-14

So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine? Then you are to say to them, The Lord has said, I will make all the people of this land, even the kings seated on David's seat, and the priests and the prophets and all the people of Jerusalem, overcome with strong drink. I will have them smashed against one another, fathers and sons together, says the Lord: I will have no pity or mercy, I will have no feeling for them to keep me from giving them to destruction.

Bottles » Ancients often drank from

Habakkuk 2:15

A curse on him who gives his neighbour the wine of his wrath, making him overcome with strong drink from the cup of his passion, so that you may be a witness of their shame! Verse Concepts

Bottles » Some, made of earthenware

Jeremiah 19:1

This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and 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 black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules. Verse Concepts

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

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wine-skin black with smoke; but I still keep the memory of your rules. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Milk

Judges 4:19

Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance

Psalm 56:8

You have seen my wanderings; put the drops from my eyes into your bottle; are they not in your record? Verse Concepts

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

Job 32:19

My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds

Job 38:37

By whose wisdom are the clouds numbered, or the water-skins of the heavens turned to the earth, Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Bottles