'Thief' in the Bible
If the thief be encountered breaking in, and be smitten so that he die, there shall be no blood-guiltiness for him.
If a man deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man's house; if the thief be found, let him restore double;
if the thief be not found, the master of the house shall be brought before the judges, to see if he has not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods.
If a man be found who hath stolen one of his brethren of the children of Israel, and who hath treated him as a slave and sold him, that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.
The murderer riseth with the light, killeth the afflicted and needy, and in the night is as a thief.
They are driven forth from among men they cry after them as after a thief --
When thou sawest a thief, thou didst take pleasure in him, and thy portion was with adulterers;
They do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry:
Whoso shareth with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth the adjuration, and declareth not.
As a thief is ashamed when he is found, so shall the house of Israel be ashamed they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets --
When I would heal Israel, then the iniquity of Ephraim is discovered, and the wickedness of Samaria: for they practise falsehood; and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers assaileth without.
They spread themselves over the city; they run upon the wall; they climb up into the houses; they enter in by 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 lodge in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.