Thematic Bible: Bottles
Thematic Bible
Bottles » Illustrative » (broken,) of severe judgments
That a sherd will not be found among its pieces
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Or to scoop water from a cistern.”
Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will send to him those who tip vessels, and they will tip him over, and they will empty his vessels and shatter his jars.
Bottles » Used for holding » Water
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba. When the water in the skin was used up, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water; and she went and filled the skin with water and gave the lad a drink.
Bottles » Used for holding » Wine
Now when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with a three-year-old bull and one ephah of flour and a jug of wine, and brought him to the house of the Lord in Shiloh, although the child was young.
Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread and a jug of wine and a young goat, and sent them to Saul by David his son.
Bottles » Made of skins » Sometimes probably of large dimensions
Now when David had passed a little beyond the summit, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him with a couple of saddled donkeys, and on them were two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred clusters of raisins, a hundred summer fruits, and a jug of wine.
Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread and two jugs of wine and five sheep already prepared and five measures of roasted grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
Bottles » Made of skins » Marred by age and use
These wineskins which we filled were new, and behold, they are torn; and these our clothes and our sandals are worn out because of the very long journey.”
So the men of Israel took some of their provisions, and did not ask for the counsel of the Lord.
Bottles » Made of skins » When old, unfit for holding new wine
Bottles » Illustrative » Of sinners ripe for judgment
"Therefore you are to speak this word to them, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, "Every jug is to be filled with wine."' And when they say to you, 'Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?' then say to them, 'Thus says the LORD, "Behold 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 the LORD "I will not show pity nor be sorry nor have compassion so as not to destroy them."'"
Bottles » Ancients often drank from
Who mix in your venom even to make them drunk
So as to look on their nakedness!
Bottles » Some, made of earthenware
Thus says the Lord, “Go and buy a potter’s earthenware jar, and take some of the elders of the people and some of the senior priests.
Bottles » First mention of, in scripture
So Abraham rose early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she departed and wandered about in the wilderness of Beersheba.
Bottles » Made of skins » Shrivelled and dried by smoke
I do
Bottles » Illustrative » (dried up,) of the afflicted
I do
Bottles » Used for holding » Milk
Bottles » Illustrative » Of God's remembrance
Put my
Are they not in
Bottles » Illustrative » (ready to burst,) of the impatient
Bottles » Illustrative » Of the clouds
Or
Symbols and similitudes » Bottles
“Therefore you are to speak this word to them, ‘Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, “Every jug is to be filled with wine.”’ And when they say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’
Thus says the LORD, "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, which is by the entrance of the potsherd gate, and proclaim there the words that I tell you,