and its breaking is like that of a potter's vessel that is smashed so ruthlessly that among its fragments not a shard is found with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern." Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 19:10

"Then you shall break the flask in the sight of the men who go with you, Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 48:12

"Therefore, behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I shall send to him pourers who will pour him, and empty his vessels and break his jars in pieces. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Water

Genesis 21:14-15

So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, along with the child, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she put the child under one of the bushes.

Genesis 21:19

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

Bottles » Used for holding » Wine

1 Samuel 1:24

And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine, and she brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh. And the child was young. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 16:20

And Jesse took a donkey laden with bread and a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them by David his son to Saul. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions

2 Samuel 16:1

When David had passed a little beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, bearing two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred bunches of raisins, a hundred of summer fruits, and a skin of wine. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 25:18

Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use

Joshua 9:13

These wineskins were new when we filled them, and behold, they have burst. And these garments and sandals of ours are worn out from the very long journey." Verse Concepts

Joshua 9:14

So the men took some of their provisions, but did not ask counsel from the LORD. Verse Concepts

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

Matthew 9:17

Neither is new wine put into old wineskins. If it is, the skins burst and the wine is spilled and the skins are destroyed. But new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved." Verse Concepts

Mark 2:22

And no one puts new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins--and the wine is destroyed, and so are the skins. But new wine is for fresh wineskins." Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment

Jeremiah 13:12-14

"You shall speak to them this word: 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jar shall be filled with wine."' And they will say to you, 'Do we not indeed know that every jar will be filled with wine?' Then you shall say to them, 'Thus says the LORD: Behold, I will fill with drunkenness all the inhabitants of this land: the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will dash them one against another, fathers and sons together, declares the LORD. I will not pity or spare or have compassion, that I should not destroy them.'"

Bottles » Ancients often drank from

Habakkuk 2:15

"Woe to him who makes his neighbors drink-- you pour out your wrath and make them drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness! Verse Concepts

Bottles » Some, made of earthenware

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus says the LORD, "Go, buy a potter's earthenware flask, and take some of the elders of the people and some 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 wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes. Verse Concepts

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

Psalm 119:83

For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten your statutes. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Milk

Judges 4:19

And he said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance

Psalm 56:8

You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Verse Concepts

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

Job 32:19

Behold, my belly is like wine that has no vent; like new wineskins ready to burst. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds

Job 38:37

Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens, Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Bottles