whenever I want to heal Israel, the sin of Ephraim is revealed, and the evil deeds of Samaria are exposed. For they do what is wrong; thieves break into houses, and gangs rob people out in the streets.

and your poverty will come like a bandit, and your need like an armed robber.” ¹ 

and your poverty will come like a robber, ¹  and your need like an armed man. ² 

On the twelfth day of the first month we began traveling from the Ahava Canal to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from our enemy and from bandits ¹  along the way.

I have been on journeys many times, in dangers from rivers, in dangers from robbers, ¹  in dangers from my own countrymen, in dangers from Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, ²  in dangers at sea, in dangers from false brothers,

Gad will be raided by marauding bands, but he will attack them at their heels. ¹ 

Indeed, she lies in wait like a robber, ¹  and increases the unfaithful ²  among men. ³ 

At the risk ¹  of our lives ²  we get our food ³  because robbers lurk ⁴  in the countryside. ⁵ 

Then two outlaws were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left.

The ¹  robbers who were crucified with him also spoke abusively to him. ² 

And they crucified two outlaws with him, one on his right and one on his left. ¹ 

Which of these three do you think became a neighbor ¹  to the man who fell into the hands of the robbers?”

All who came before me were ¹  thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ² 

Then they shouted back, ¹  “Not this man, ²  but Barabbas!” ³  (Now Barabbas was a revolutionary. ⁴ ) ⁵ 

The leaders of Shechem rebelled against Abimelech by putting ¹  bandits in ²  the hills, who robbed everyone who traveled by on the road. But Abimelech found out about it. ³ 

They helped David fight against raiding bands, for all of them were warriors and leaders in the army.

Jesus said to them, “Have you come with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? ¹ 

“I tell you the solemn truth, ¹  the one who does not enter the sheepfold ²  by the door, ³  but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

At that moment Jesus said to the crowd, “Have you come out with swords and clubs to arrest me like you would an outlaw? ¹  Day after day I sat teaching in the temple courts, yet ²  you did not arrest me.

Jesus replied, ¹  “A man was going down ²  from Jerusalem ³  to Jericho, ⁴  and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat ⁵  him up, and went off, leaving him half dead. ⁶