The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . nt upon the simple act of throwingstones. It was the favorite weapon of the Benjam-ites, a small tribe, not making a great mass inan order of battle, but well composed for lighttroops. They could also boast of using the slingequally well with the left hand as with the sling was made of plaited thongs, somewhatbroad in the middle, to lodge the stone or leadenmissile, and was twi
The popular and critical Bible encyclopædia and Scriptural dictionary, fully defining and explaining all religious terms, including biographical, geographical, historical, archaeological and doctrinal themes . nt upon the simple act of throwingstones. It was the favorite weapon of the Benjam-ites, a small tribe, not making a great mass inan order of battle, but well composed for lighttroops. They could also boast of using the slingequally well with the left hand as with the sling was made of plaited thongs, somewhatbroad in the middle, to lodge the stone or leadenmissile, and was twirled two or three times roundbefore the stone was allowed to take could not be cast above 400 feet, butleaden bullets could be thrown as far as 600 force as well as precision of aim whichmight be attained in the use of this instrumentwas remarkably shown in the case of David, andseveral nations of antiquity boasted of great skillin the practice of the sling. 2. Defensive Arms. The most ancient defen-sive piece was the shield, buckler, roundel ortarget, composed of a great variety of materials,very different in form and size, and therefore inall nations bearing a variety of 1. The Tsenna, or Great Shield. 2. Common Egyptian Shield. 3- Target. 4, 5. Ancient Shields of Unknown Tribes. 6. RoundeL (1) Shield. The Hebrews used the wordtsenna, for a great shield, defense, protection(Gen. xv :i; Ps. xlviho; Prov. xxx:5), which iscommonly found in connection with spear, andwas the shelter of heavily-armed infantry; magin,a buckler, or smaller shield, which, from a similarjuxtaposition with sword, bow and arrows, ap-pears to have been the defense of the other armedinfantry and of chiefs, and sohairah, parma, aroundel, which may have been appropriated toarchers and slingers, and there were shelatim andshelti, synonymous with magin, only different inornament. In the more advanced areas of civili-zation shields were made of light wood not liableto split, cove
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