Dict: easton - Robbery

easton:

Robbery @ Practised by the Ishmaelites kjv@Genesis:16:12), the Chaldeans and Sabeans kjv@Job:1:15-17), and the men of Shechem kjv@Judges:9:25.
See also kjv@1Samuel:27:6-10; 30; kjv@Hosea:4:2 kjv@Hosea:6:9). Robbers infested Judea in our Lord's time kjv@Luke:10:30; kjv@John:18:40; kjv@Acts:5:36-37 kjv@Acts:21:38; kjv@2Corinthians:11:26). The words of the Authorized Version, "counted it not robbery to be equal," etc. kjv@Philippians: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 kjv@Acts:19:37).