Bible Verses About Robbers

If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

Has this house, which bears My Name, become a den of robbers in your sight? Yes, I too have seen it, declares the LORD.

Like raiders who lie in ambush, so does a band of priests; they murder on the way to Shechem; surely they have committed atrocities.

When I heal Israel, the iniquity of Ephraim will be exposed, as well as the crimes of Samaria. For they practice deceit and thieves break in; bandits raid in the streets.