'Thief' in the Bible
If the thief is found breaking in, and is struck so that he dies, there shall be no guilt of bloodshed for him.
"If a man delivers to his neighbor money or stuff to keep, and it is stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he shall pay double.
If the thief isn't found, then the master of the house shall come near to God, to find out if he hasn't put his hand to his neighbor's goods.
If a man be found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deal with him as a slave, or sell him; then that thief shall die: so you shall put away the evil from the midst of you.
The murderer rises with the light. He kills the poor and needy. In the night he is like a thief.
They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:
Whoever is an accomplice of a thief is an enemy of his own soul. He takes an oath, but dares not testify.
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 the iniquity of Ephraim is uncovered, also the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief enters in, and the gang of robbers ravages outside.
I will cause it to go out," says Yahweh of Armies, "and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the midst of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones."