'Robbers' in the Bible

The Lord was furious with Israel and handed them over to robbers who plundered them. He turned them over to their enemies who lived around them. They could not withstand their enemies' attacks.

The Lord raised up leaders who delivered them from these robbers.

So the Lord rejected all of Israel's descendants; he humiliated them and handed them over to robbers, until he had thrown them from his presence.

But the tents of robbers are peaceful, and those who provoke God are confident -- who carry their god in their hands.

Do you think this temple I have claimed as my own is to be a hideout for robbers? You had better take note! I have seen for myself what you have done! says the Lord.

If grape pickers came to pick your grapes, would they not leave a few grapes behind? If robbers came at night, would they not pillage only what they needed?

At the risk of our lives we get our food because robbers lurk in the countryside.

The company of priests is like a gang of robbers, lying in ambush to pounce on a victim. They commit murder on the road to Shechem; they have done heinous crimes!

And he said to them, "It is written, 'My house will be called a house of prayer,' but you are turning it into a den of robbers!"

The robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him.

Then he began to teach them and said, "Is it not written: 'My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations'? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

Jesus replied, "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him up, and went off, leaving him half dead.

Which of these three do you think became a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?"

saying to them, "It is written, 'My house will be a house of prayer,' but you have turned it into a den of robbers!"

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,