And he broke it as the breaking of a vessel of the potter's being crushed; he will not spare: and there shall not be found in its crushing a sherd to take fire from the burning, and to skim off water from the reservoir. Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 19:10

And break the bottle before the eyes of the men going with thee, Verse Concepts

Jeremiah 48:12

For this, behold, the days coming, says Jehovah, and I sent to him those turning aside, and they turned aside, and they will empty his vessels and break his bottles. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Water

Genesis 21:14-15

And Abraham will rise early in the morning, and take food, and a leathern bottle of water, and give to Hagar (putting upon her shoulder), and the child, and will send her away: and she will go forth and wander in the desert to the well of the oath. And the waters shall be spent in the water skin, and she will cast the child under one of the shrubs.

Genesis 21:19

And God will open her eyes, and she will see a well of waters, and will go and fill the water skin with water, and will give the child to drink. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Wine

1 Samuel 1:24

And she will bring him up with her when she weaned him, with three bullocks and one ephah of flour, and a flask of wine; and she will bring him to the house of Jehovah in Shiloh, and the boy a youth. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 16:20

And Jesse will take a heap of bread and a sack of wine, and one kid of the goats, and he will send by the hand of David his son to Saul. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions

2 Samuel 16:1

And David passed over a little from the head, and behold, Ziba, Mephibosheth's boy, to his meeting, and a pair of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred of bread and a hundred bunches of dried grapes, and a hundred of fruits, and a flask of wine. Verse Concepts

1 Samuel 25:18

And Abigail will hasten and take two hundred of bread, and two flasks of wine, and five sheep done, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of dried grapes, and two hundred cakes of figs, and put upon asses. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use

Joshua 9:13

And these leather sacks of wine which we filled, new, and behold, they were rent; and these our garments and our shoes worn out from the exceeding greatness of the way. Verse Concepts

Joshua 9:14

And the men will take of their food, and they asked not the mouth of Jehovah. Verse Concepts

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

Matthew 9:17

Neither do they cast new wine into old wineskins: but if otherwise, the wine-skins burst, and the wine is poured out, and the wine-skins are destroyed; but they cast new wine into new wine-skins, and they are both preserved. Verse Concepts

Mark 2:22

And none puts new wine in old wine-skins: and lest the new wine rend the wine-skins, and the wine be poured out, and the wine-skins perish; but they put new wine in new wine-skins. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment

Jeremiah 13:12-14

And say to them this word: Thus said Jehovah God of Israel, Every flask shall be filled with wine: and they said to thee, Knowing, shall it not be known that every flask shall be filled with wine? And say to them, Thus said Jehovah, Behold me filling all inhabiting this land, and all the kings sitting to David upon his throne, and the priests and the prophets, and all inhabiting Jerusalem, with drunkenness. And I dashed them in pieces, a man against his brother, and the fathers and the sons together, says Jehovah. I will not pity, and I will not spare, and I will not compassionate from destroying them.

Bottles » Ancients often drank from

Habakkuk 2:15

Wo! to him giving his neighbor drink, pouring out thy leathern bottle, and also to be drunken so as to look upon their nakedness. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Some, made of earthenware

Jeremiah 19:1

Thus said Jehovah, Go and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and from the old men of the people and from the old men 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

I was as a bottle in smoke; I forgot not thy laws. Verse Concepts

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

Psalm 119:83

I was as a bottle in smoke; I forgot not thy laws. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Used for holding » Milk

Judges 4:19

And he will say to her, Give me to drink now a little water, for I thirsted. And she will open a sack of milk, and will give him drink, and will cover him. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance

Psalm 56:8

Thou didst recount my wanderings: set thou my tears in thy bottle: are they not in thy book? Verse Concepts

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

Job 32:19

Behold, my belly as wine it will not open; it will break open as new wine skins. Verse Concepts

Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds

Job 38:37

Who shall number the clouds in wisdom? and who shall cause the bottles of heaven to lie down? Verse Concepts

Symbols and similitudes » Bottles