Thematic Bible: Bottles
Thematic Bible
Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
of a potter’s jar,
so that not even a fragment of pottery
will be found among its shattered remains—
no fragment large enough to take fire from a hearth
or scoop water from a cistern.”
this is the Lord’s declaration—
when I will send those to him, who will pour him out.
They will empty his containers
and smash his jars.
Bottles » Used for holding » Water
Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, [put them] on Hagar's shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the waterskin and gave the boy a drink.
Bottles » Used for holding » Wine
When she had weaned him, she took him with her to Shiloh, as well as a three-year-old bull, half a bushel of flour, and a jar of wine. Though the boy was still young, she took him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh.
So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine, and one young goat and sent them by his son David to Saul.
Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions
When David had gone a little beyond the summit, Ziba, Mephibosheth’s servant, was right there to meet him. He had a pair of saddled donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 bunches of summer fruit, and a skin of wine.
Abigail hurried, taking 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, 100 clusters of raisins, and 200 cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use
These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals of ours are worn out from the extremely long journey.”
Then the men of Israel took some of their provisions, but did not seek the Lord’s counsel.
Bottles » Made of skins » When old, unfit for holding new wine
Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment
"Say this to them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every jar should be filled with wine. Then they will respond to you: Don't we know that every jar should be filled with wine? And you will say to them, This is what the Lord says: I am about to fill all who live in this land-the kings who reign for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the residents of Jerusalem-with drunkenness. I will smash them against each other, fathers and sons alike"-the Lord's declaration. "I will allow no mercy, pity, or compassion [to keep Me] from destroying them."
Bottles » Ancients often drank from
pouring out your wrath
and even making them drunk,
in order to look at their nakedness!
Bottles » Some, made of earthenware
This is what the Lord says: “Go, buy a potter’s clay jar. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the leading priests
Bottles » First mention of, in scripture
Early in the morning Abraham got up, took bread and a waterskin, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her and the boy away. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
I do not forget Your statutes.
Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
I do not forget Your statutes.
Bottles » Used for holding » Milk
He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.
Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance
Put my tears in Your bottle.
Are they not in Your records?
Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient
Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds
Or who can tilt the water jars of heaven
Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
“Say this to them: This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Every jar should be filled with wine. Then they will respond to you, ‘Don’t we know that every jar should be filled with wine?’
This is what the Lord says: "Go, buy a potter's clay jug. Take some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests and go out to the Valley of Hinnom near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Proclaim there the words I speak to you.