1 Samuel 17:42

42 Cuando el filisteo miró y vio a David, lo tuvo en poco porque era un muchacho, rubio y bien parecido.

1 Samuel 17:42 Meaning and Commentary

1 Samuel 17:42

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he
disdained him
He looked about for his antagonist, to take a view of him, what sort of a man he was, expecting to see one much like himself; but observing a puny young man, he despised him in his heart, and perhaps looked upon it as an affront to him to send such a man to fight with him:

for he was [but] a youth;
his age was one reason why he despised him, being, as before observed, about twenty years of age, and not come to his full strength, a stripling, as he is called, ( 1 Samuel 17:56 ) , another reason follows,

and ruddy, and of a fair countenance;
looked effeminate, had not the appearance of a soldier, of a weather beaten veteran, exposed to heat and cold, and inured to hardships.

1 Samuel 17:42 In-Context

40 y tomando su cayado en la mano, escogió del arroyo cinco piedras lisas y las puso en el saco de pastor que traía, en el zurrón, y con la honda en la mano se acercó al filisteo.
41 El filisteo vino, y se fue acercando a David, con su escudero delante de él.
42 Cuando el filisteo miró y vio a David, lo tuvo en poco porque era un muchacho, rubio y bien parecido.
43 Y el filisteo dijo a David: ¿Acaso soy un perro, que vienes contra mí con palos? Y el filisteo maldijo a David por sus dioses.
44 También dijo el filisteo a David: Ven a mí, y daré tu carne a las aves del cielo y a las fieras del campo.
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