1 Samuel 17:40

five smooth stones out of the brook "The sides and bed of this trench [see above on 1 Samuel 17:3] are strewn with rounded and water-worn pebbles, which would have been well fitted for David's sling." Conder, II. 161.

scrip A small bag, especially a traveller's wallet. Cp. Matthew 10:10; and Milton, Comus, 1. 626,

"And in requital ope his leathern scrip."

his sling "The sling has been in ail ages the favourite weapon of the shepherds of Syria. The Benjamites were especially expert In their use of it: even the left-handed could sling stones at an hair and not miss (Judges 20:16)."