Thematic Bible: Day's journey, eighteen or twenty miles


Thematic Bible



but he went on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. He said, “I have had enough! Lord, take my life, for I’m no better than my fathers.”

They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

Jonah set out on the first day of his walk in the city and proclaimed, “In 40 days Nineveh will be demolished!”


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