Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.

Bible References

Breaking

Matthew 6:19
"Do not store up your riches on earth, where moths and rust destroy them, and where thieves break in and steal them,
Matthew 24:43
But you may be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
for you yourselves know perfectly well that the Day of the Lord is to come like a thief in the night.