Exodus 22:2

The Scriptures 1998

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

Cross References

Job 24:14

The murderer rises at daylight, he slays the poor and needy, and in the night he is as a thief.

Job 24:16

In the dark he has broken into houses; by day they shut themselves up; they have not known light.

Job 30:5

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

Jeremiah 2:34

“Even on your skirts is found the blood of the lives of the poor innocents. You did not find them breaking in, but in spite of all these,

Hosea 7:1

“Whenever I would heal Yisra’ĕ

Joel 2:9

They rush on 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 revenger of blood finds him outside the limits of his city of refuge, and the revenger of blood kills him who killed someone, he is not guilty of blood,

Matthew 24:43

“And 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 very well that the day of יהוה  comes as a thief in the night.

1 Peter 4:15

For do not let any of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or doer of evil, or as a meddler.