But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his foot even to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.
And his father had not displeased him at any time in saying, Why have you done so? and he also was a very good looking man; and his mother bore him after Absalom.
From the sole of the foot even to the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores: they have not been closed up, neither bound up, neither softened with ointment.
Clothed with waistbands upon their loins, excelling in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
Children in whom was no blemish, but good looking, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and those that had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
The LORD shall strike you in the knees, and in the legs, with a hurtful boil that cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
But the LORD said to Samuel, Look not on his appearance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.
And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and attractive: and there was not among the children of Israel a more attractive person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was taller than any of the people.