Thematic Bible: Bottles
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Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
It will break like pottery. It will be smashed. Nothing will be left of it. No piece will be big enough to carry live coals from a fireplace or to dip water from a reservoir.
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Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you.
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So now, the time is coming when I will send people to pour Moab out like wine. They will empty its wine jars and break them in pieces.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Water
Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba. When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Then God opened her eyes. She saw a well of water. She filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Wine
After she weaned him she took him to Shiloh. She also took a three-year-old bull, a bushel of flour, and a leather bag full of wine. She took Samuel, young as he was, to the Temple of Jehovah at Shiloh.
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Jesse loaded a donkey with bread and a goatskin full of wine. He told David to take the donkey and a young goat to Saul.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions
David started down the other side of the Mount of Olives. He met Ziba, the chief servant of Mephibosheth. Ziba had two donkeys that were carrying two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred figs, and some wine.
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So Abigail quickly took two hundred loaves of bread, two full wineskins, five butchered sheep, a bushel of roasted grain, one hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred fig cakes and loaded them on donkeys.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use
These bottles of wine, which we filled, were new and now they are cracked. Our garments and shoes have become old by reason of the very long journey.
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The men sampled their provisions but did not ask for counsel from Jehovah.
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Bottles » Made of skins » When old, unfit for holding new wine
Neither do men put new wine in old wineskins. The skins burst and the wine is lost. They put new wine in fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
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No man puts new wine into old wineskins. The skins will burst and the wine and the skins will be wasted. New wine has to be put into new wine skins.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment
Speak this word to them: 'Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Every jug is to be filled with wine. When they say to you, Do we not know that every jug is to be filled with wine? Say to them: Jehovah says I am about to fill all the inhabitants of this land, the kings that sit for David on his throne, the priests, the prophets and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with drunkenness! I will dash them against each other, both the fathers and the sons together, declares Jehovah. 'I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them.'
Bottles » Ancients often drank from
Woe to anyone who gives his neighbors drink and empties his bottle. He makes them drunk and then looks on their nakedness.
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Bottles » Some, made of earthenware
Jehovah says: Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.
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Bottles » First mention of, in scripture
Early the next morning Abraham took bread and a container of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder. He also gave her the boy and sent her on her way. So she left and wandered around in the desert near Beer-sheba.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your statutes.
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Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
Though I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, I do not forget your statutes.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Milk
He said to her: Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty. She opened a jug of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance
You have kept account of my wandering. Put my tears in your skin bottle. Are they not in your book?
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Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient
My heart is indeed like wine that has no vent. It is like new wineskins and is ready to burst.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds? Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens?
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Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
Then you are to break the jar in the sight of the men who accompany you.
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Speak this word to them: 'Thus says Jehovah, the God of Israel, Every jug is to be filled with wine. When they say to you, Do we not know that every jug is to be filled with wine?
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Jehovah says: Go and buy a potter's earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests. Then go out to the valley of Ben-hinnom (Hinnom Valley), which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you.