What Is Sling in the Bible?
Object
A strip of leather or cord used to hurl stones with force by whirling it around. With it David defeated Goliath.
Where it appears in the Bible
1 Samuel 17:40; 1 Samuel 17:49
What the Bible says
1 Samuel 17:40
And he took his staff, which he had always in his hands: and chose him five smooth stones out of the brook, and put them into the shepherd’s scrip, which he had with him, and he took a sling in his hand, and went forth against the Philistine.
1 Samuel 17:49
And he put his hand into his scrip, and took a stone, and cast it with the sling, and fetching it about struck the Philistine in the forehead: and the stone was fixed in his forehead, and he fell on his face upon the earth.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: 1 Samuel 17:40