Exodus 22:2

“If a thief is caught breaking in [after dark] and is struck [by the owner] so that he dies, there shall be no bloodguilt for him.

Matthew 24:43

But understand this: If the head of the house had known what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

Numbers 35:27

and the blood avenger finds him outside the border of his city of refuge and kills the offender, the blood avenger will not be guilty of murder,

Matthew 6:19-20

“Do not store up for yourselves [material] treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

Job 24:14

“The murderer rises at dawn;
He kills the poor and the needy,
And at night he becomes a thief.

Job 30:5

“They are driven from the community;
They shout after them as after a thief.

Hosea 7:1

When I would heal Israel,
The sin (guilt) of Ephraim is uncovered,
And the wickedness of Samaria,
Because they practice false dealing;
The thief enters,
Bandits ravage and raid outside.

Joel 2:9

They rush over the city,
They run on the wall;
They climb up into the houses,
They enter at the windows like a thief.

1 Thessalonians 5:2

For you yourselves know perfectly well that the day of the [return of the] Lord is coming just as a thief [comes unexpectedly and suddenly] in the night.

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