Exodus 22:2

New King James Version

If the thief is found breaking in, and he is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt for his bloodshed.

Cross References

Job 24:14

The murderer rises with the light; He kills the poor and needy; And in the night he is like a thief.

Job 24:16

In the dark they break into houses Which they marked for themselves in the daytime; They do not know the light.

Job 30:5

They were driven out from among men, They shouted at them as at a thief.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found The blood of the lives of the poor innocents. I have not found it by secret search, But plainly on all these things.

Hosea 7:1

“When I would have healed Israel, Then the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, And the wickedness of Samaria. For they have committed fraud; A thief comes in; A band of robbers takes spoil outside.

Joel 2:9

They run to and fro in the city, They run on the wall; They climb into the houses, They enter at the windows like a thief.

Numbers 35:27

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

Matthew 24:43

But know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

1 Peter 4:15

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as a busybody in other people’s matters.