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
"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through, and steal;
Matthew 24:43
But know this, that, had the householder known at what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.
1 Thessalonians 5:2
for ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief at night.