Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Then they came to urge David to eat bread while it was still day, but David took an oath: “May God punish me and do so severely if I taste bread or anything else before sunset!”

I’m now 80 years old. Can I discern what is pleasant and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

Taste and see that the Lord is good.
How happy is the man who takes refuge in Him!

How sweet Your word is to my taste—
sweeter than honey in my mouth.

“Stolen water is sweet,
and bread eaten secretly is tasty!”

Desire fulfilled is sweet to the taste,
but to turn from evil
is an abomination to fools.

Pleasant words are a honeycomb:
sweet to the taste and health to the body.

W Like an apricot tree among the trees of the forest,
so is my love among the young men.
I delight to sit in his shade,
and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

Moab has been left quiet since his youth,
settled like wine on its dregs.
He hasn’t been poured from one container to another
or gone into exile.
So his taste has remained the same,
and his aroma hasn’t changed.

Then he issued a decree in Nineveh:

By order of the king and his nobles: No man or beast, herd or flock, is to taste anything at all. They must not eat or drink water.