Jeremiah 13:12

Therefore thou shalt speak unto them this word; Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Every bottle shall be filled with wine: and they shall say unto thee, Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? A new image. DO WE NOT CERTAINLY KNOW THAT EVERY BOTTLE SHALL HE FILLED WITH WINE? - the "bottles" are those used in the East, made of skins; our word hogshead, originally oxhide, alludes to the same custom. As they were used to hold water, milk, and other liquids, what the prophet said-namely, that they should be all filled with wine-was not, as the Jews' taunting reply implied, a truism even literally. The figurative sense, which is what Jeremiah chiefly meant, they affected not to understand. As wine intoxicates, so God's wrath and judgments shall reduce them to that state of helpless distraction that they shall rush on their own ruin ...

The Prophet denounces here by another similitude the vengeance of God, for he says that all would be _filled with drunkenness: _but he is bidden at first simply to set before _them _the metaphor, _Every bottle_, or flagon, he says, _shall be filled with wine _The word רבל, _ubel, _means a bladder; but the word bottle is more suitable here. (75) Bladders were wont in those countries to be filled with water and with wine, as the custom is still in the east; as we see at this day that oil is put in bladders and thus carried, so bladders are commonly used there to carry water and wine; but as it is added, _I will dash them against one another, _it is better to use the word bottles, or flagons. This general statement might have appeared to be of no weight; for what instruction does this contain, “Every bottle shall be filled with wine?” It is like what one might say, — that a tankard

12-17 As the bottle was fitted to hold the wine, so the sins of the people made them vessels of wrath, fitted for the judgments of God; with which they should be filled till they caused each other's destruction. The prophet exhorts them to give glory to God, by confessing their sins, humbling themselves in repentance, and returning to his service. Otherwise they would be carried into other countries in all the darkness of idolatry and wickedness. All misery, witnessed or foreseen, will affect a feeling mind, but the pious heart must mourn most over the afflictions of the Lord's flock....

Verse Jeremiah 13:12. _EVERY BOTTLE SHALL BE FILLED WITH WINE?_] The bottles were made for the purpose of being filled with wine; and it is likely, from the promising appearance of the _season_ and the _grapes_, that there was a great likelihood of a _copious_ _vintage_; and this made them say, "Do we not certainly know that every bottle shall be filled with wine? Have we not every prospect that it will be so? Do we need a revelation to inform us of this?...

BOTTLE - jar, the “potter’s vessel” of Isaiah 30:14 : a new symbol, but with the same meaning, the approaching destruction of Jerusalem Jeremiah 13:14....

EXPOSITION The chapter falls into two parts—the one describing a divinely commanded action of the prophet, symbolical of the approaching rejection of the Jewish people, the other announcing in literal language the ruin especially of the king and the queen-mother, and emphasizing the inveterate corruption which rendered such a blow necessary. The mention of the queen-mother (see Jeremiah 13:18) renders it probable that Jehoiachin is the king under whom the prophecy was composed. It is true that other kings besides Jehoiachin ascended the throne in the lifetime of their mother; but the express and repeated mention of the queen-mother in the account of Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:12, 2 Kings 24:15; comp....

THEREFORE THOU SHALT SPEAK UNTO THEM THIS WORD,.... The following parable: THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL; what was to be said is prefaced with these words, to show that it was not a trifling matter, but of moment and importance, and not to be slighted and despised as it was: EVERY BOTTLE SHALL BE FILLED WITH WINE; meaning every inhabitant of Judea and Jerusalem, comparable to bottles or earthen vessels, as the Jewish writers interpret it, for their being empty of all that is good, and for their frailty and brittleness being liable to be broke to pieces, and to utter ruin and destruction; these are threatened to be "filled with wine"; not literally taken, such as they loved; though there may be an allusion to their intemperance, and so this is a just retaliation for their sins; but figuratively, with the wine of divine wrath; and their being filled with it denotes the greatness of t...

CHAPTER 13 Signs, Warnings, and Exhortations _ 1. The linen girdle and the filled bottles (Jeremiah 13:1) _ 2. Hear and give glory (Jeremiah 13:15) 3. The justice of the judgment (Jeremiah 13:22) Jeremiah 13:1. The prophet enacts a sign, that of the linen girdle. After he had put on the girdle, he was told to hide it in a hole of the rock of the Euphrates. After many days, he was commanded to dig for the girdle. It was found marred and profitable for nothing. Was this only a vision, or did the prophet actually make the long journey to the Euphrates and then repeat it after many

THE FIGURE OF THE WINE-JARS. The fate of the men of Judah is that they shall be filled like jars with the wine of drunkenness (_cf._ Jeremiah 25:15 ff., Psalms 60:3), and then shall be dashed to destruction (as a potter might dash such earthen jars together; _cf._ Psalms 2:9)....

THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL. See note on Jeremiah 11:3. BOTTLE. an earthenware jar: not leathern or skin bottles. WINE. Hebrew. _yayin._ App-27....