'Thief' in the Bible
If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.
If a man shall deliver unto his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, he shall pay double.
If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall come near unto God, to see whether he have not put his hand unto his neighbor's goods.
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.
The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
They are driven forth from the midst of men ; They cry after them as after a thief;
When thou sawest a thief, thou consentedst with him, And hast been partaker with adulterers.
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul; He heareth the adjuration and uttereth nothing.
As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;
When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers ravageth without.
They leap upon the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in at the windows like a thief.
I will cause it to go forth, saith Jehovah of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.