Thematic Bible: Bottles
Thematic Bible
Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
It shatters in pieces like a clay jar, so shattered to bits that none of it can be salvaged. Among its fragments one cannot find a shard large enough to scoop a hot coal from a fire or to skim off water from a cistern."
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The Lord continued, "Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.
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But the time is coming when I will send men against Moab who will empty it out. They will empty the towns of their people, then will lay those towns in ruins. I, the Lord, affirm it!
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Bottles » Used for holding » Water
Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba. When the water in the skin was gone, she shoved the child under one of the shrubs.
Then God enabled Hagar to see a well of water. She went over and filled the skin with water, and then gave the boy a drink.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Wine
Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah of flour, and a container of wine. She brought him to the Lord's house at Shiloh, even though he was young.
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So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a container of wine, and a young goat and sent them to Saul with his son David.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions
When David had gone a short way beyond the summit, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth was there to meet him. He had a couple of donkeys that were saddled, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred raisin cakes, a hundred baskets of summer fruit, and a container of wine.
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So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two containers of wine, five prepared sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred lumps of pressed figs. She loaded them on donkeys
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Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use
These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey."
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The men examined some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord's advice.
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Bottles » Made of skins » When old, unfit for holding new wine
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the skins burst and the wine is spilled out and the skins are destroyed. Instead they put new wine into new wineskins and both are preserved."
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And no one pours new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the skins will be destroyed. Instead new wine is poured into new wineskins."
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment
"So tell them, 'The Lord, the God of Israel, says, "Every wine jar is made to be filled with wine."' And they will probably say to you, 'Do you not think we know that every wine jar is supposed to be filled with wine?' Then tell them, 'The Lord says, "I will soon fill all the people who live in this land with stupor. I will also fill the kings from David's dynasty, the priests, the prophets, and the citizens of Jerusalem with stupor. And I will smash them like wine bottles against one another, children and parents alike. I will not show any pity, mercy, or compassion. Nothing will keep me from destroying them,' says the Lord."
Bottles » Ancients often drank from
"You who force your neighbor to drink wine are as good as dead -- you who make others intoxicated by forcing them to drink from the bowl of your furious anger, so you can look at their genitals.
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Bottles » Some, made of earthenware
The Lord told Jeremiah, "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests.
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Bottles » First mention of, in scripture
Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.
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Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
For I am like a wineskin dried up in smoke. I do not forget your statutes.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Milk
He said to her, "Give me a little water to drink, because I'm thirsty." She opened a goatskin container of milk and gave him some milk to drink. Then she covered him up again.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance
You keep track of my misery. Put my tears in your leather container! Are they not recorded in your scroll?
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Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient
Inside I am like wine which has no outlet, like new wineskins ready to burst!
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds
Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over the water jars of heaven,
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Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
The Lord continued, "Now break the jar in front of those who have come here with you.
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"So tell them, 'The Lord, the God of Israel, says, "Every wine jar is made to be filled with wine."' And they will probably say to you, 'Do you not think we know that every wine jar is supposed to be filled with wine?'
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The Lord told Jeremiah, "Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take with you some of the leaders of the people and some of the leaders of the priests. Go out to the part of the Hinnom Valley which is near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. Announce there what I tell you.