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 earth, where moth and rust corrupts, and where thieves break through and steal:
Matthew 24:43
but this ye know, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broke open: therefore be ye also ready;
1 Thessalonians 5:2
for ye yourselves know full well, that the day of the Lord cometh like a thief in the night.