“When I would have healed Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim was uncovered, even the wickedness of Samaria, for they practice fraud. So a thief breaks in; a marauding band will raid outside.
and should the blood avenger find him outside the city limits of the refuge city, the blood avenger may put him to death without being guilty of his blood.
But know this, that if the master of the house had known what time the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not let his house be broken into.