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

Bible Comments

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 accountable for it, unless it were in the necessary defence of his own life.

Exodus 22:2

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