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  2. Wells in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    If the cement of the cistern gave way, the reservoir became useless and was abandoned. It was then one of the "broken cisterns, that could hold no water" (Jeremiah 2:13). The mouth of wells and cisterns was generally surrounded by a curb or low wall and closed with a stone, both to prevent accidents and to keep away strangers. If the owner ...

  3. Jeremiah 2 - Wikipedia

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    The poem in 2:1–3:5 shows the evidence of a broken covenant against Israel, addresses alternately between the two personae of Judah (or Jerusalem) as a female wife (using Hebrew feminine singular grammatical forms in 2:2; 2:17–25; 2:33–3:5) and the "male Israel" (using masculine singular and plural forms in 2:3; 2:4–16; 2:26–32). [2]

  4. Living Water - Wikipedia

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    Living water (Hebrew: מַֽיִם־חַיִּ֖ים, romanized: mayim-ḥayyim; Greek: ὕδωρ ζῶν, romanized: hydōr zōn) is a biblical term which appears in both the Old and New Testaments. In Jeremiah 2:13 and 17:13 , the prophet describes God as "the spring of living water", who has been forsaken by his chosen people Israel.

  5. Ebed-Melech - Wikipedia

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    Ebed-Melech (Hebrew: עֶבֶד-מֶלֶךְ ‘Eḇeḏmeleḵ; Latin: Abdemelech; Ge'ez: አቤሜሌክ) is a character in Jeremiah 38. When Jeremiah had been thrown into a cistern and left to die, Ebed-Melech came to rescue him. [1] As a result, Jeremiah relayed God's message to him that he would survive the coming destruction of Jerusalem. [2]

  6. Jeremiah - Wikipedia

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    Jeremiah was guided by God to proclaim that the nation of Judah would suffer famine, foreign conquest, plunder, and captivity in a land of strangers. [19] Horace Vernet, Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem (1844) According to Jeremiah 1:2–3, Yahweh called Jeremiah to prophesy in about 626 BC, [14] about five years before Josiah's famous ...

  7. Cistern - Wikipedia

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    A cistern (from Middle English cisterne; from Latin cisterna, from cista 'box'; from Ancient Greek κίστη (kístē) 'basket' [1]) is a waterproof receptacle for holding liquids, usually water. Cisterns are often built to catch and store rainwater. [2] To prevent leakage, the interior of the cistern is often lined with hydraulic plaster. [3]

  8. New Wine into Old Wineskins - Wikipedia

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    The sense is this: 'As new wine, or must, by the violence of its fermenting spirit, and its heat, bursts the old skins, because they are worn and weak, and so there is a double loss, both of wine and skins; therefore new wine must be poured into new skins, that, being strong, they may be able to bear the force of the must: so in like manner ...

  9. Teqoa - Wikipedia

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    Jeremiah places Teqoa in the south (Jeremiah 6:1), and two other passages speak about the desert, or wilderness, of Tekoa (2 Chronicles 20:20 and 1 Maccabees 9:33). [11] However, Amos 1:1 describes the prophet as "a herdsman of Tekoa", suggesting that the land was reasonable for shepherding .