Thematic Bible: Bottles
Thematic Bible
Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
And your destruction shall be as the breaking of a potter's vessel that without mercy is broken to pieces so that there shall not be found in the bursting of it even a shard to take fire from the hearth or to take water from the well.
Therefore, behold, the days come, said the LORD, that I will send unto him captors that shall take him captive and shall empty his vessels and break his wineskins.
Bottles » Used for holding » Water
So Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto 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 was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under a tree.
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.
Bottles » Used for holding » Wine
And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks and one ephah of flour and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh; and the child was young.
And Jesse took an ass laden with bread and a bottle of wine and a kid and sent them by David, his son, unto Saul.
Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions
And when David was a little past the top of the mountain, behold, Ziba, the servant of Mephibosheth, met him with a couple of asses saddled and upon them two hundred loaves of bread and one hundred bunches of raisins and one hundred of summer fruits and a bottle of wine.
Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two bottles of wine and five sheep ready dressed and five measures of parched flour and one hundred bunches of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs and laid them on asses.
Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use
These bottles of wine, we also filled new, and, behold, they are rent, and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey.
And the men of Israel took of their provision and did not ask counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
Bottles » Made of skins » When old, unfit for holding new wine
Neither do they put new wine into old wineskins, otherwise the wineskins break, and the wine runs out, and the wineskins perish; but they put new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved together.
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, and the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are lost; but new wine must be poured into new wineskins.
Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment
Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said, Every bottle shall be filled with wine; and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus hath the LORD said, Behold, I fill all the inhabitants of this land with drunken ness, even the kings that sit upon David's throne and the priests and the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will break them one against another, even the fathers with the sons together, saith the LORD; I will not pity nor spare nor have mercy to not destroy them.
Bottles » Ancients often drank from
Woe unto him that gives his neighbours drink, that puts thy bottle to them, and makes them drunken also, that thou may look on their nakedness!
Bottles » Some, made of earthenware
Thus hath the LORD said, Go and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests;
Bottles » First mention of, in scripture
So Abraham rose up early in the morning and took bread and a bottle of water and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child and sent her away; and she departed and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
For I am become like a wine skin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.
Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
For I am become like a wine skin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.
Bottles » Used for holding » Milk
And he said unto 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 to drink and covered him again.
Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance
Thou tellest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book?
Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient
Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst forth like spirits.
Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds
Who declared the heavens in wisdom? Or who can stay the bottles of heaven
Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word: Thus hath the LORD God of Israel said, Every bottle shall be filled with wine; and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
Thus hath the LORD said, Go and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the elders of the people and of the elders of the priests; and go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry by the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell thee.