TO DELIGHT IN, to desire, to want — the verb of an inclination, not of a duty. ⭐ Deuteronomy uses it twice of a man whose wanting has cooled, and both times the law takes the woman's side: 21:14, if you take no delight in her, of the captive wife, who must then go free; and 25:7–8, if the man has no desire to take his brother's widow … I have no desire to take her, the sentence the sandal answers. ⚠ It is also a verb of God — Isaiah 53:10 (already on these pages), Jehovah was pleased to crush him, and Hosea 6:6 (not yet on these pages), I delight in mercy and not sacrifice — and of a king: in four verses of Esther 6 (not yet on these pages) the man whom the king delights to honour is the refrain Haman hears as himself. Shechem delighted in Dinah (Genesis 34:19, already on these pages) and Saul in David (1 Samuel 18:22, not yet on these pages). → first discussed at Deut 25:7