1 Samuel 9:2

2. A choice young man, and a goodly In the vigour and prime of early manhood, and of a beautiful countenance.

Higher than any of the people Great respect was paid by the ancients to a noble presence. Herodotus (iii, 20) says of the Ethiopians: “They confer the sovereignty upon the man whom they consider to be of the largest stature, and to possess strength proportionable to his size.”