Exodus 22:2

New International Version

“If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed;

Cross References

Job 24:14

When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up, kills the poor and needy, and in the night steals forth like a thief.

Job 24:16

In the dark, thieves break into houses, but by day they shut themselves in; they want nothing to do with the light.

Job 30:5

They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.

Jeremiah 2:34

On your clothes is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all this

Hosea 7:1

whenever I would heal Israel, the sins of Ephraim are exposed and the crimes of Samaria revealed. They practice deceit, thieves break into houses, bandits rob in the streets;

Joel 2:9

They rush upon the city; they run along the wall. They climb into the houses; like thieves they enter through the windows.

Numbers 35:27

and the avenger of blood finds them outside the city, the avenger of blood may kill the accused without being guilty of murder.

Matthew 24:43

But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.

1 Peter 4:15

If you suffer, it should not be as a murderer or thief or any other kind of criminal, or even as a meddler.