Verse 2

If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

Referenced Verses

• Matt 24:43 : 43 But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.
• Num 35:27 : 27 and the avenger of blood find him without the border of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood slay the manslayer; he shall not be guilty of blood,
• Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal: 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
• 1 Thess 5:2 : 2 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
• Job 24:14 : 14 The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.
• Job 30:5 : 5 They are driven forth from the midst [of men] ; They cry after them as after a thief;
• Hos 7:1 : 1 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.
• Joel 2:9 : 9 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.