Robbery
Robbery
When St. Paul enumerates in his Second Letter to the Corinthian Church the dangers through which he has passed in the prosecution of his missionary labours he includes , perils of robbers (2Co 11:26). There can be little doubt that, while this peril may have existed on many of the routes in Asia Minor, it existed in a special degree on that through the Taurus mountains by which St. Paul reached Antioch. However valuable for health reasons the journey to the higher land may have been, it involved positive dangers, perils of rivers not less than perils of robbers. While the Roman authorities had set themselves the task of suppressing brigandage, and visited upon brigands the stern punishment of crucifixion, it was obviously impossible to make that suppression complete, especially in mountainous or relatively obscure districts. Augustus discovered how hopeless was the task of rooting out the brigands of the Pisidian mountains. Travellers who could afford it usually adopted the wise precaution of having an escort.
Epigraphic study, associated chiefly with the names of Sterrett and Ramsay, has served to give interesting evidence of the insecurity which prevailed amid the Taurus heights. Patrokles and Douda, for example, set up an epitaph in memory of their son Sousou, a policeman who was slain by robbers, while there is evidence also for the existence of an official-the stationarius-who had to lend assistance in the capture of runaway slaves, a class from which the ranks of the mountain robbers might be must easily recruited.
Emphatic statements respecting the prevalence of robbers during the stormy period preceding the fall of Jerusalem, and an account of the measures adopted by Felix in consequence, may be found in Josephus-as to the number of the robbers he caused to be crucified, and of those who were caught among them, and whom he brought to punishment, they were a multitude not to be enumerated (Bellum Judaicum (Josephus) II. xiii. 2).
Literature.-C. A. J. Skeel, Travel in the First Century after Christ, Cambridge, 1901; J. R. S. Sterrett, Epigraphic Journey in Asia Minor, Boston, 1888; W. M. Ramsay, The Church in the Roman Empire, London, 1893, p. 23 f. article Roads and Travel (in NT) in Hasting’s Dictionary of the Bible (5 vols) v.
R. Strong.
Fuente: Dictionary of the Apostolic Church
Robbery
Practised by the Ishmaelites (Gen. 16:12), the Chaldeans and Sabeans (Job 1:15, 17), and the men of Shechem (Judg. 9:25. See also 1 Sam. 27:6-10; 30; Hos. 4:2; 6:9). Robbers infested Judea in our Lord’s time (Luke 10:30; John 18:40; Acts 5:36, 37; 21:38; 2 Cor. 11:26). The words of the Authorized Version, “counted it not robbery to be equal,” etc. (Phil. 2:6, 7), are better rendered in the Revised Version, “counted it not a prize to be on an equality,” etc., i.e., “did not look upon equality with God as a prize which must not slip from his grasp” = “did not cling with avidity to the prerogatives of his divine majesty; did not ambitiously display his equality with God.”
“Robbers of churches” should be rendered, as in the Revised Version, “of temples.” In the temple at Ephesus there was a great treasure-chamber, and as all that was laid up there was under the guardianship of the goddess Diana, to steal from such a place would be sacrilege (Acts 19:37).
Fuente: Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Robbery
Esteemed by the Ishmaelites as creditable (Gen 16:12). Predatory incursions were frequent on the part of the Chaldaeans and Sabeans (Job 1:15; Job 1:17). The “liers in wait” of the men of Shechem are instances also, “robbing all that came along that way” (Jdg 9:25). Also David plundering the Amalekites, etc. (1Sa 27:6-10); they made reprisals (1 Samuel 30). In Israel’s disorganized state in the northern kingdom this evil was very prevalent (Hos 4:2; Hos 6:9; Mic 2:8). Owing to the corrupt administration of Roman governors, and the facility of collecting and hiding banditti in the natural caves of Palestine, robbers infested Judaea much in our Lord’s time and the age following (Luk 10:30; Joh 18:40; Act 5:36-37; Act 21:38; 2Co 11:26). (On the punishment of robbery, see Exodus 22.) (For “thieves” translated “robbers”, see Mat 27:38.)
Fuente: Fausset’s Bible Dictionary
Robbery
Forbidden
Lev 19:13; Isa 61:8
Punished with death
Eze 18:10; Eze 18:13
Forgiven
Eze 33:15
Instances of
Jdg 9:25; Luk 10:30 Robbers; Theft
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Robbery
Robbery. Robbery has ever been one of the principal employments of the nomad tribes of the East. From the time of Ishmael to the present day, the Bedouin has been a “wild man,” and a robber by trade. Gen 16:12. The Mosaic law on the subject of theft is contained in Exo 2:2. There seems no reason to suppose that the law underwent any alteration in Solomon’s time. Man-stealing was punishable with death. Exo 21:16; Exo 24:7. Invasion of right in land was strictly forbidden. Deu 27:17; Isa 5:8; Mic 2:2.
Fuente: Smith’s Bible Dictionary
ROBBERY
examples of
Jdg 9:25; Job 24:16; Eze 22:29; Amo 3:10; Luk 10:30
–SEE Theft Forbidden, STEALING
Dishonesty, BUSINESS LIFE
& BUSINESS LIFE
Fuente: Thompson Chain-Reference Bible
Robbery
* For ROBBERY see PRIZE