1 Samuele 17:42

42 E quando il Filisteo ebbe scorto Davide, lo disprezzò, perch’egli non era che un giovinetto, biondo e di bell’aspetto.

1 Samuele 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 Samuele 17:42 In-Context

40 E prese in mano il suo bastone, si scelse nel torrente cinque pietre ben lisce, le pose nella sacchetta da pastore, che gli serviva di carniera, e con la fionda in mano mosse contro il Filisteo.

41 Il Filisteo anch’egli si fe’ innanzi, avvicinandosi sempre più a Davide, ed era preceduto dal suo scudiero.

42 E quando il Filisteo ebbe scorto Davide, lo disprezzò, perch’egli non era che un giovinetto, biondo e di bell’aspetto.

43 Il Filisteo disse a Davide: "Son io un cane, che tu vieni contro a me col bastone?" E il Filisteo maledisse Davide in nome de’ suoi dèi;

44 e il Filisteo disse a Davide: "Vieni qua ch’io dia la tua carne agli uccelli del cielo e alle bestie de’ campi".