Thematic Bible: Made of skins
Thematic Bible
Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions
When David was a little past the top, 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.
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.
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."
The men sampled their provisions, and did not ask counsel from the mouth of the LORD.
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."
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke. I do not forget your statutes.