It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
"Now he was ruddy ... and handsome"  (1 Samuel 16:12).  "This means that David was either of fair complexion or red-haired,"[9] or perhaps both, since both conditions often appear together.  This writer had both a brother and a sister with light complexion and with red hair.