Bible Verses About Looting

For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks’ mouths, we brought again unto thee out of the land of Canaan: how then should we steal out of thy lord’s house silver or gold?

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

And they took all the spoil, and all the prey, both of men and of beasts.

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

So that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall burn the weapons with fire: and they shall spoil those that spoiled them, and rob those that robbed them, saith the Lord God.

And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses: and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.

(For the men of war had taken spoil, every man for himself.)

Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer: but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Thou shalt not steal.

But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Neither shalt thou steal.

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:

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

And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah, and all their victuals, and went their way.

Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my goodly pleasant things:

Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.

If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.

If a man shall deliver unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep, and it be stolen out of the man’s house; if the thief be found, let him pay double.

Ye shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?

Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression; the same is the companion of a destroyer.

And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves.

Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice of the Lord, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the Lord?

Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.