The meaning of Robbery in the Bible
(From Easton's Bible Dictionary)
Practised by the Ishmaelites (Genesis 16:12), the Chaldeans and Sabeans (Job 1:15,17), and the men of Shechem (Judges 9:25. See also I Samuel 27:6-10; 30; Hosea 4:2; 6:9). Robbers infested Judea in our Lord's time (Luke 10:30; John 18:40; Acts 5:36,37; 21:38; 2co 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."
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