Thematic Bible: Bottles
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Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
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Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,
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Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will send to him those who pour off, and they shall pour him off; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles in pieces.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Water
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba. The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
God opened her eyes, and she saw a well of water. She went, filled the bottle with water, and gave the boy drink.
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Bottles » Used for holding » Wine
When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bulls, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him to Yahweh's house in Shiloh. The child was young.
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Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine, and a young goat, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions
When David was a little past the top [of the ascent], behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of donkeys saddled, and on them two hundred loaves of bread, and one hundred clusters of raisins, and one hundred summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.
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Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two bottles of wine, five sheep ready dressed, five measures of parched grain, one hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use
These wineskins, which we filled, were new; and behold, they are torn. These our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey."
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The men sampled their provisions, and didn't ask counsel from the mouth of Yahweh.
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Bottles » Made of skins » When old, unfit for holding new wine
Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
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No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment
Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? Then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings who sit on David's throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness. I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, says Yahweh: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have compassion, that I should not destroy them.
Bottles » Ancients often drank from
"Woe to him who gives his neighbor drink, pouring your inflaming wine until they are drunk, so that you may gaze at their naked bodies!
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Bottles » Some, made of earthenware
Thus said Yahweh, Go, and buy a potter's earthen bottle, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;
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Bottles » First mention of, in scripture
Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder; and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
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Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't forget your statutes.
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Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I don't 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 bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance
You number my wanderings. You put my tears into your bottle. Aren't they in your book?
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Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient
Behold, my breast is as wine which has no vent; like new wineskins it is ready to burst.
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Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds
Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the bottles of the sky,
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Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
Then you shall break the bottle in the sight of the men who go with you,
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Therefore you shall speak to them this word: Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall tell you, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine?
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Thus said Yahweh, 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 to the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by the entry of the gate Harsith, and proclaim there the words that I shall tell you;