SLING

Passages on this topic · 15

• Judges 20:16

  Among all these soldiers there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed. Every one of them could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

• 1 Samuel 17:40

  He took his staff in his hand, and chose for himself five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag which he had. His sling was in his hand; and he came near to the Philistine.

• 1 Samuel 17:41

  The Philistine walked and came near to David; and the man who bore the shield went before him.

• 1 Samuel 17:42

  When the Philistine looked around, and saw David, he disdained him; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and had a good looking face.

• 1 Samuel 17:43

  The Philistine said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come to me with sticks?” The Philistine cursed David by his gods.

• 1 Samuel 17:44

  The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh to the birds of the sky, and to the animals of the field.”

• 1 Samuel 17:45

  Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to you in the name of Yahweh of Armies, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied.

• 1 Samuel 17:46

  Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,

• 1 Samuel 17:47

  and that all this assembly may know that Yahweh doesn’t save with sword and spear; for the battle is Yahweh’s, and he will give you into our hand.”

• 1 Samuel 17:48

  When the Philistine arose, and walked and came near to meet David, David hurried, and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine.

• 1 Samuel 17:49

  David put his hand in his bag, took a stone, and slung it, and struck the Philistine in his forehead. The stone sank into his forehead, and he fell on his face to the earth.

• 1 Samuel 17:50

  So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and struck the Philistine, and killed him; but there was no sword in the hand of David.

• 2 Kings 3:25

  They beat down the cities; and on every good piece of land each man cast his stone, and filled it. They also stopped all the springs of water, and felled all the good trees, until in Kir Hareseth all they left was its stones; however the men armed with slings went around it, and attacked it.

• 2 Chronicles 26:14

  Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the army, shields, spears, helmets, coats of mail, bows, and stones for slinging.

• Proverbs 26:8

  As one who binds a stone in a sling, so is he who gives honor to a fool.