Credit: Jauke de Haan
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Comments: Ancient sling, based on the Balearic method of sling making.
Credit: Peter van der Sluijs
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Comments: Sling large from the Gambia
Credit: Matson Collection. Library of Congress
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Comments: Types and character, etc. Shepherd boy slinging, (A modern David)
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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.
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