Job 24:14

24:14 Before daybreak ¹  the murderer rises up;

he kills the poor and the needy;

in the night he is ²  like a thief. ³ 

Job 30:5

30:5 They were banished from the community ⁴  –

people ⁵  shouted at them

like they would shout at thieves ⁶  –

Hosea 7:1

7:1 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.

Joel 2:9

2:9 They rush into ⁷  the city;

they scale ⁸  its walls.

They climb up into the houses;

they go in through the windows like a thief.

Matthew 6:19-20

Lasting Treasure

6:19 “Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth ⁹  and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. 6:20 But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.

Matthew 24:43

24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief ¹⁰  was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into.

Matthew 24:1

The Destruction of the Temple

24:1 Now ¹¹  as Jesus was going out of the temple courts and walking away, his disciples came to show him the temple buildings. ¹² 

Matthew 5:2

5:2 Then ¹³  he began to teach ¹⁴  them by saying:

[24:14]  ¹ tn The text simply has לָאוֹר (la’or, “at light” or “at daylight”), probably meaning just at the time of dawn.

[24:14]  ² tn In a few cases the jussive is used without any real sense of the jussive being present (see GKC 323 §109.k).

[24:14]  ³ sn The point is that he is like a thief in that he works during the night, just before the daylight, when the advantage is all his and the victim is most vulnerable.

[30:5]  ⁴ tn The word גֵּו (gev) is an Aramaic term meaning “midst,” indicating “midst [of society].” But there is also a Phoenician word that means “community” (DISO 48).

[30:5]  ⁵ tn The form simply is the plural verb, but it means those who drove them from society.

[30:5]  ⁶ tn The text merely says “as thieves,” but it obviously compares the poor to the thieves.

[2:9]  ⁷ tn Heb “dart about in.”

[2:9]  ⁸ tn Or “they run upon its wall.”

[6:19]  ⁹ tn The term σής (shs) refers to moths in general. It is specifically the larvae of moths that destroy clothing by eating holes in it (L&N 4.49; BDAG 922 s.v.). See Jas 5:2, which mentions “moth-eaten” clothing.

[24:43]  ¹⁰ sn On Jesus pictured as a returning thief, see 1 Thess 5:2, 4; 2 Pet 3:10; Rev 3:3; 16:15.

[24:1]  ¹¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the transition to a new topic.

[24:1]  ¹² sn The Jerusalem temple was widely admired around the world. See Josephus, Ant. 15.11 [15.380-425]; J. W. 5.5 [5.184-227] and Tacitus, History 5.8, who called it “immensely opulent.” Josephus compared it to a beautiful snowcapped mountain.

[5:2]  ¹³ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the narrative.

[5:2]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “And opening his mouth he taught them, saying.” The imperfect verb ἐδίδασκεν (edidasken) has been translated ingressively.