Robbery

Boyd’s Bible Dictionary:

(breaking, riving). Oppression, pillage, and thievery formed almost an employment among nomad tribes (Gen. 16:12; Judg. 2:14; Luke 10:30; John 18:40).

From Manners and Customs of the Bible:

Job 12:6. The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure.
Robbery has from a very early period of history been a common occupation of lawless men, and has also often proved a profitable employment, as intimated by the text. Whole tribes, and in some instances entire nations, adopted it as a means of livelihood. The Sabeans stole Job’s oxen and asses, and “the Chaldeans made out three bands and fell upon the camels” (Job 1:15,17). The Shechemites “set liers in wait” for Abimelech “in the top of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them” (Judg. 9:25). The robbery mentioned in the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke 10:30) frequently found its counterpart in facts, and at the present day travelers are sometimes robbed by predatory bands.

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