the First Sunday of Lent
free while helping to build churches and support pastors in Uganda.
Click here to learn more!
Bible Dictionaries
Sling
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
or 
Credit: Jauke de Haan
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Ancient sling, based on the Balearic method of sling making.
Credit: Peter van der Sluijs
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Sling large from the Gambia
Credit: Matson Collection. Library of Congress
License: Public Domain
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Types and character, etc. Shepherd boy slinging, (A modern David)
Credit: Deror_avi
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
Credit URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org...
Comments: Sling Stones, Tel Lachish, 701 BCE. Jerusalem: A Medical Diagnosis Exhibition,Tower of David Entrance, The Old City of Jerusalem, Israel.
From Easton: With a sling and a stone David smote the Philistine giant (1 Samuel 17:40, 1 Samuel 17:49). There were 700 Benjamites who were so skilled in its use that with the left hand they "could sling stones at a hair breadth, and not miss" (Judges 20:16; 1 Chronicles 12:2). It was used by the Israelites in war (2 Kings 3:25). (See ARMS
The words in Proverbs 26:8, "As he that bindeth a stone in a sling," etc. (Authorized Version), should rather, as in the Revised Version, be "As a bag of gems in a heap of stones," etc.
Verses:
- Judges 20:16
- 1 Samuel 17:40
- 1 Samuel 17:50
- 1 Samuel 25:29
- 2 Kings 3:25
- 1 Chronicles 12:2
- 2 Chronicles 26:14
- Job 41:28
- Proverbs 26:8
- Isaiah 22:18
- Jeremiah 10:18
- Zechariah 9:15
These files are public domain.
Bible Diciontary of Animals, Plants, and other Objects. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/apo/s/sling.html. 2024.
_LOC_matpc.23094.jpg){kind=link}
