10 Bible Verses about Seeing At A Distance

On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place at a distance.

Thus they lifted up their eyes from afar, but they did not recognize him, so they raised their voice, and they wept, and each man tore his outer garment and threw dust on their heads {toward the sky}.

So she went and came to the man of God by Mount Carmel. It happened when the man of God saw her {at a distance}, he said to Gehazi his servant, "There is this Shunammite.

Yes, from afar you may view the land, but there you shall not enter there, [that is], into the land that I [am] giving to the {Israelites}."

And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.

And [when he] saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before him.

And there were many women there, observing from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him,

And there were also women observing from a distance, among whom [were] Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the younger and Joses, and Salome,

And all his acquaintances, and the women who had followed him from Galilee who saw these [things], stood at a distance.

These all died in faith without receiving the promises, but seeing them from a distance and welcoming [them], and admitting that they were strangers and temporary residents on the earth.