Reference

Jeremiah 13:12

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“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?”
10

This evil people, which refuse to hear my words, which walk in the imagination of their heart, and walk after other gods, to serve them, and to worship them, shall even be as this girdle, which is good for nothing.

11

For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith the Lord; that they might be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

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?

13

Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will fill all the inhabitants of this land, even the kings that sit upon David’s throne, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, with drunkenness.

14

And I will dash them one against another, even the fathers and the sons together, saith the Lord: I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them.

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Counter-Arguments

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Literal Fulfillment

The "bottles" and "wine" in this verse are clearly metaphorical for the people of Judah and the judgment they will face, making a purely literal fulfillment unlikely.

Total Abstinence

This verse uses the filling of bottles with wine as a metaphor for an impending judgment or situation, not as a direct commentary on the consumption or avoidance of wine itself. The statement "every bottle shall be filled with wine" is presented as a known fact, not a warning or command regarding abstinence.

Prophetic Methods of Communication

The verse describes God instructing Jeremiah to speak a message, which is a method of communication, but it does not detail *how* God communicated that instruction to Jeremiah (e.g., through a dream, vision, or audible voice). The focus is on the message delivery, not the initial divine revelation to the prophet.

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Cross-References

Proverbs 12:21Thematic

“There shall no evil happen to the just: but the wicked shall be filled with mischief.”

Ezekiel 24:19Thematic

“And the people said unto me, Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us, that thou doest so?”

Jeremiah 25:15Thematic

“For thus saith the Lord God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.”

Jeremiah 25:33Thematic

“And the slain of the Lord shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.”

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