Exodus 22:2

English Standard Version 2016

If a thief is found breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him,

Cross References

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

Joel 2:9

They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.

Hosea 7:1

when I would heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria, for they deal falsely; the thief breaks in, and the bandits raid outside.

Job 30:5

They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.

Job 24:14

The murderer rises before it is light, that he may kill the poor and needy, and in the night he is like a thief.

1 Peter 4:15

But let none of you suffer as a murderer or a thief or an evildoer or as a meddler.

Job 24:16

In the dark they dig through houses; by day they shut themselves up; they do not know the light.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the guiltless poor; you did not find them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things