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. Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 19:10

Then thou shalt break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee, Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 48:12

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. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Water

Genesis 21:14-15

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.

Genesis 21:19

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. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Wine

1 Samuel 1:24

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. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 16:20

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. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions

2 Samuel 16:1

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. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 25:18

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. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use

Joshua 9:13

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. Verse Concepts

Joshua 9:14

And the men of Israel took of their provision and did not ask counsel at the mouth of the LORD. Verse Concepts

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

Matthew 9:17

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. Verse Concepts

Mark 2:22

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. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment

Jeremiah 13:12-14

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

Habakkuk 2:15

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! Verse Concepts

Bottles » Some, made of earthenware

Jeremiah 19:1

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; 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 am become like a wine skin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten thy statutes. Verse Concepts

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

Psalm 119:83

For I am become like a wine skin in the smoke; yet I have not forgotten thy statutes. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Milk

Judges 4:19

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. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance

Psalm 56:8

Thou tellest my wanderings; put my tears into thy bottle; are they not in thy book? Verse Concepts

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

Job 32:19

Behold, my belly is as wine which has no vent; it is ready to burst forth like spirits. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds

Job 38:37

Who declared the heavens in wisdom? Or who can stay the bottles of heaven Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Bottles