²³ Then they ran and took him from there. And when he stood among the people, ^(A)he was taller than any of the people from his shoulders upward.

² And he had a son whose name was Saul, ^(A)a handsome young man. There was not a man among the people of Israel more handsome than he. ^(B)From his shoulders upward he was taller than any of the people.

⁴ And there came out from the camp of the Philistines a champion named ^(A)Goliath of ^(B)Gath, whose height was six^[a] cubits^[b] and a span.

⁷ But the Lord said to Samuel, ^(A)“Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, ^(B)but the Lord looks on the heart.”