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Bottles

 

Bottles

First mention of, in Scripture - Ge 21:14

Ancients often drank from - Hab 2:15

USED FOR HOLDING

• Water
- Ge 21:14,15,19
• Milk
- Jud 4:19
• Wine
- 1Sa 1:24; 16:20

Some, made of earthenware - Jer 19:1

MADE OF SKINS

• Shrivelled and dried by smoke
- Ps 119:83
• Marred by age and use
- Jos 9:14,13
• When old, unfit for holding new wine
- Mt 9:17; Mr 2:22
• Sometimes probably of large dimensions
- 1Sa 25:18; 2Sa 16:1

ILLUSTRATIVE

• Of the clouds
- Job 38:37
• Of God's remembrance
- Ps 56:8
• Of sinners ripe for judgment
- Jer 13:12-14
• (Dried up,) of the afflicted
- Ps 119:83
• (Ready to burst,) of the impatient
- Job 32:19
• (Broken,) of severe judgments
- Isa 30:14; Jer 19:10; 48:12
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