1 Samuel 17:42

42 Olhou para Davi com desprezo, viu que era só um rapaz, ruivo^[a] e de boa aparência, e fez pouco caso dele.

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 e em seguida pegou seu cajado, escolheu no riacho cinco pedras lisas, colocou-as na bolsa, isto é, no seu alforje de pastor, e, com sua atiradeira na mão, aproximou-se do filisteu.

41 Enquanto isso, o filisteu, com seu escudeiro à frente, vinha se aproximando de Davi.

42 Olhou para Davi com desprezo, viu que era só um rapaz, ruivo e de boa aparência, e fez pouco caso dele.

43 Disse ele a Davi: “Por acaso sou um cão, para que você venha contra mim com pedaços de pau?” E o filisteu amaldiçoou Davi, invocando seus deuses,

44 e disse: “Venha aqui, e darei sua carne às aves do céu e aos animais do campo!”

Footnotes

• [a] Ou "moreno"