Thematic Bible: Bottles
Thematic Bible
Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
Its breaking will be like when potters' vessels are broken, shattered so ruthlessly that among its fragments not even a broken sliver will be found for taking fire from a hearth or scooping water out of a cistern."
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"Then you are to break the jug in front of the men who have come with you,
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"Therefore, look, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I'll send those who tip over vessels to him, and they'll tip him over. They'll empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Water
So early the next morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a leather bottle of water, gave them to Hagar, and placed them on her shoulder. He then sent her away, along with the child. She went off and roamed in the Beer-sheba wilderness. Eventually, the water in the leather bottle ran out, so she placed the child under one of the bushes.
Then God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. So she went, filled the skin with water, and gave the boy a drink.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Wine
Then, when she had weaned him, she brought him up with her to Shiloh, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour, and a skin of wine. She brought him to the house of the LORD at Shiloh, and the boy was young.
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Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and one kid, and sent them to Saul along with his son David.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions
Now just as David happened to have passed the summit of the Mount of Olives, suddenly Mephibosheth's servant Ziba met him, accompanied by a couple of saddled donkeys loaded with 200 loaves of bread, 100 clusters of raisins, 100 pieces of summer fruit, and a skin of wine!
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Abigail quickly took 200 loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five measures of roasted grain, 100 bunches of raisins, and 200 fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use
And these wineskins were new when we filled them, but look now they're cracked. And our clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey."
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So the leaders of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not ask the LORD about it.
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Bottles » Made of skins » When old, unfit for holding new wine
Nor do people pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill out, and the skins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
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And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will make the skins burst, and both the wine and the skins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into fresh wineskins."
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment
"This is what you're to tell them: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Every wineskin is to be filled with wine."' When they say to you, "Don't we know very well that every wineskin is to be filled with wine?', then say to them, "This is what the LORD says: "I'm about to make all the inhabitants of this land drunk the kings who sit on David's throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the residents of Jerusalem. I'll smash them against each other, even fathers against their sons," declares the LORD. "I'll have no pity, mercy, or compassion when I destroy them."'"
Bottles » Ancients often drank from
"Woe to the one who supplies his neighbor with a drink! You are forcing your bottle on him, making him drunk so you can see them naked.
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Bottles » Some, made of earthenware
This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a potter's clay jug. Take along some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests.
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Bottles » First mention of, in scripture
So early the next morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a leather bottle of water, gave them to Hagar, and placed them on her shoulder. He then sent her away, along with the child. She went off and roamed in the Beer-sheba wilderness.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.
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Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
Though I have become like a water skin dried by smoke, I have not forgotten your statutes.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Milk
He asked her, "Please give me some water to drink, because I'm thirsty." Instead, she opened a leather container of milk, gave him a drink, and then covered him up.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance
You have kept count of my wanderings. Put my tears in your bottle have not you recorded them in your book?
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Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient
My insides feel like unvented wine, like it's about to burst like a new wineskin.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds
Who has the wisdom to be able to count the clouds, or to empty the water jars of heaven,
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Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
"Then you are to break the jug in front of the men who have come with you,
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"This is what you're to tell them: "This is what the LORD God of Israel says: "Every wineskin is to be filled with wine."' When they say to you, "Don't we know very well that every wineskin is to be filled with wine?',
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This is what the LORD says: "Go and buy a potter's clay jug. Take along some of the elders of the people and some of the elders of the priests. Go out to the Valley of Hinnom at the entrance to the Potsherd Gate, and there proclaim the words that I'm telling you.