Exodus 22:2 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. ”

Exodus 22:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

If a thief, in breaking into a dwelling in the night, was slain, the person who slew him did not incur the guilt of blood; but if the same occurred in daylight, the slayer was guilty in accordance...
Exodus 22:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

If a thief be found (b) breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him. (b) Breaking a house to enter in, or undermining.
Exodus 22:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 22:1-6 E. Theft and Damage. Fourfold restitution was due ( Exodus 22:1 ), as in Roman law and Bedawin custom, for theft of a sheep (though fivefold for the doubly useful ox), reduced to...
Exodus 22:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

found : i, e. caught in the act of.
Exodus 22:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. If a thief be found breaking up. This clause is to be taken separately, and is inserted by way of parenthesis; for, after having decreed the punishment, God adds in connection, “he should...
Exodus 22:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. If a thief be found - If a thief was found breaking into a house in the night season, he might b...
Exodus 22:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

If a thief be found breaking up— That is, if he were found in the very act of breaking into a house, then reason and self-defence justified the destroying such a person, and accordingly the Divine...
Exodus 22:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. No JFB commentary on these verses.
Exodus 22:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Book of the Covenant (continued) 1. Four sheep] The larger compensation required in the case of the ox is probably due to the fact that it is an animal used for labour, and of proportionately...
Exodus 22:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XXII. (1-4) Theft is here treated of with great brevity, only three kinds being distinguished — (1) Housebreaking; (2) stealing without conversion of the property; (3) stealing with conversion. Th...
Exodus 22:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

PART III.--RIGHTS OF PROPERTY. Exodus 21:33 - Exodus 22:15 . The vital and quickening principle in this section is the stress it lays upon man's responsibility for negligence, and the indirec...
Exodus 22:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The laws of property follow. The section really begins with verse Exo 21:33 of the previous chapter. These laws also began by laying emphasis on the guilt of carelessness. The truth emphasized is tha...
Exodus 22:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe the difference between robbery in the day, and in the night.
Exodus 22:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

If a thief be found breaking up ,.... An house, in order to steal money, jewels, household goods, c. or breaking through any fence, hedge, or wall of any enclosure, where oxen, or sheep, or any othe...
Exodus 22:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, [there shall] no blood [be shed] for him. Ver. 2. If a thief be found. ] So, if an adulteress be taken, - as she was in John 8:4 , - ε...
Exodus 22:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

If a thief broke into a house in the night, and was killed in the doing it, his blood was upon his own head; but if it were in the day-time that the thief was killed, he that killed him was account...
Exodus 22:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

LAWS AS REGARDS PROPERTY (vs.1-15) While one rightly was control over his own property, yet he is also responsible as to how he uses it. If one were to dig a pit, even on his own property, and le...
Exodus 22:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judicial Laws. B. C. 1491. 1 If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sel...
Exodus 22:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ver. 2: Breaking up, to wit, an house , which the Chaldee here adds, and by night , as appears from the next verse. For him, i.e. for the thief, though he be killed by a man in his own defence....
Exodus 22:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Regulations Concerning Farming Theft and Damage ( Exodus 22:1-13 ). Here we have five main paragraphs which begin with ‘if (ci) a man' or ‘if (ci) a fire' (English text (verses) Exodus 22:1 ; Ex...
Exodus 22:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 22:2 . No blood be shed for him.] This is a free translation, which, however, fairly gives the purport of the original words. The Hebrew phrase reads literally: “There is...
Exodus 22:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 22:2 . Breaking up, by forcible entrance into a house, there shall no blood be shed for him, though he be killed by another in his own defence. In that case the thief might be presumed to...
Exodus 22:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

If a man steal. The law of robbery God made provision not only for the acquisition of property, but for its security. Hence this law, which respects-- 1. Theft. 2. Housebreaking. I. Th...
Exodus 22:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT , continued . Laws connected with rights of property, continued ( Exodus 22:1-2 ). The fret section— Exodus 22:1-2 —is upon theft. The general pr...
Exodus 22:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Regarding Property
Exodus 22:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

breaking Job 24:14 Job 30:5 Hosea 7:1 Joel 2:9 Matthew 6:19 Matthew 6:20 Matthew 24:43 1 Thessalonians 5:2 no blood Numbers 35:27
Exodus 22:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

If a thief broke a house in the night, and was killed in the doing it, his blood was upon his own head. But if it were in the day — time that the thief was killed, he that killed him was accountabl...

Exodus 22:2 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Exodus 22:2 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Exodus 22:2 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Exodus 22:2 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Exodus 22:2 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Exodus 22:2 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 22:2 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Exodus 22:2 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Exodus 22:2 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Exodus 22:2 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Exodus 22:2 - The Biblical Illustrator

Exodus 22:2 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Exodus 22:2 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Exodus 22:2 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Exodus 22:2 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes