1 Samuel 25:29

Yet a man, &c. Better, And though men have arisen … yet the soul of my lord shall be bound up in the bundle of the living. The figure is taken from the practice of binding up valuables in a bag or bundle. Cp. Genesis 42:35. Of course the immediate reference is only to the safe preservation of David's temporal life.

shall he sling out, &c. A vigorous metaphor to express total rejection. Cp. Jeremiah 10:18.

the middle of a sling Lit. the panor hollowin which the stone was placed. The marginal rendering "bought" means "the bowedor bent part of a sling on which the stone was placed." See the Bible Word-Book, p. 73.