43 Bible Verses about distance
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But if {the distance is too great for you}, [so] that you are not able to transport it, because the place that Yahweh your God will choose to set his name there, it is [too] far from you, when Yahweh your God will bless you,
[But] there will be a distance between you and it of about two thousand cubits in measurement. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way that you must go, for you have not passed on [this] way {before}."
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 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 they arrested him [and] led [him] away and brought [him] into the house of the high priest. But Peter was following at a distance.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place at a distance.
And the people stood at a distance, and Moses approached the very thick cloud where God was.
then [in that case] {you may exchange for money}, and you shall take the money to your hand and go to the place that Yahweh your God will choose.
And the winepress was stomped outside the city, and blood went out from the winepress up to the bridles of the horses, about one thousand six hundred stadia.
But the tax collector, standing far away, did not want even to raise his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
As far as east [is] from west, [so] he has removed far from us [the guilt of] our transgressions.
And he set out [and] came to his own father. But [while] he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran {and embraced him} and kissed him.
For as [the] heavens are high above the earth, [so] his loyal love prevails over those who fear him.
And there were many women there, observing from a distance, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him,
Now a long way from them a large herd of pigs was feeding.
My friends and companions stand aloof from my affliction, and my relatives stand afar off.
And [when he] saw from a distance a fig tree that had leaves, he went [to see] if perhaps he would find anything on it. And [when he] came up to it he found nothing except leaves, because it was not the season for figs.
And they saw him from a distance. And before he drew near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
For there is no man in his home; he has gone on a {long journey}.
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.
for even if I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing and seeing your good order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
Then David went to the other side and stood on the top of the hill at a distance; the distance [was] great between them.
And to Moses he said, "Go up to Yahweh--you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy from the elders of Israel--and you will worship at a distance.
No person could distinguish the sound of joyful acclaim from the sound of people weeping, for the people shouted with great joyful acclaim and the sound was heard from afar.
Then fifty men from the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite [them] at a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.
because in one hour such great wealth has been laid waste!" And every shipmaster and {every seafarer} and sailors and all those who labor on the sea stood {far off}
With roar and rage {it races over the ground}, and it cannot stand still at [the] sound of [the] horn.
And Moses took the tent and pitched it outside the camp far from the camp, and he called it the tent of assembly, {and} all seeking Yahweh would go out to the tent of assembly, which [was] outside the camp.
And in Hades he lifted up his eyes [as he] was in torment [and] saw Abraham from a distance, and Lazarus {at his side}.
All around [the city] [is] eighteen thousand [cubits], and the name of the city from [that] day [is] "Yahweh [Is] There"!
And all the people [were] seeing the thunder and the lightning and the sound of the ram's horn and the mountain smoking, and the people saw, and they trembled, and they stood at a distance.
And she went and {she sat a good distance away}, for she said, "Let me not see the child's death." So she sat away from him and lifted up her voice and wept.
But Peter was following him from a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest. And he went inside [and] was sitting with the officers to see the outcome.
The merchants of these [things], who became rich from them, will stand {far off}, weeping and mourning because of the fear of her torment,
Topics on Distance
Seeing At A Distance
Genesis 22:4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and he saw the place at a distance.
Standing At A Distance
Exodus 2:4And his sister stood at a distance to know what would be done to him.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16And when the water was finished from the skin, she put the child under one of the bushes.