Exodus 22:2

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

Related Commentaries of 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...
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 unde...
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 (thou...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

found : i, e. caught in the act of.
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 t...
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 bre...
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 des...
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.
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Breaking up] RV 'breaking in.'
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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

If a thief be found breaking up. — Rather, breaking in: i.e., making forcible entry into a dwelling-house. Most codes agree with the Mosaic in al...
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 ma...
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...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Observe the difference between robbery in the day, and in the night.
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 o...
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 ad...
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 th...
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 w...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Judicial Laws. B. C. 1491. 1 If a man...
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...
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)...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Expansion of the Ten Words of the Covenant ( Exodus 20:22 to Exodus 23:33 ). In this section, which is composed of elements put together mainly...
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 wo...
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 de...
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 res...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE BOOK OF THE COVENANT , continued . Laws connected with rights of property, continued ( Exodus 22:1-2 ). The fret sec...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION II. LAWS CONNECTED WITH RIGHTS OF PROPERTY (verses 33-36). From the consideration of injuries to the person, the legisl...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Regarding Property
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

If a thief be found breaking up, breaking through a wall, breaking into a house, Matthew 6:20 , and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be...
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 t...

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

Related Commentaries of Exodus 22:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Exodus 22:2