1 Samuel 17:42

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Da filisteren så frem for sig og blev var David, foraktet han ham, fordi han var ung og rødkinnet og fager å se til.

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disdained: 1 Kings 20:18, 2 Kings 18:23, 2 Kings 18:24, Nehemiah 4:2-4, Psalms 123:3, Psalms 123:4, 2 Corinthians 11:27-29

a youth: 1 Samuel 17:33, 1 Samuel 16:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:6 - a goodly person Numbers 13:33 - and we were 1 Samuel 17:31 - sent for him Job 39:21 - and Jeremiah 9:23 - neither

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 42. He disdained him — He held him in contempt; he saw that he was young, and from his ruddy complexion supposed him to be effeminate.