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


Thematic Bible



while he went a day's journey into the desert. He went and sat down under a shrub and asked the Lord to take his life: "I've had enough! Now, O Lord, take my life. After all, I'm no better than my ancestors."

"The elders will listen to you, and then you and the elders of Israel must go to the king of Egypt and tell him, 'The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. So now, let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the Lord our God.'

When Jonah began to enter the city one day's walk, he announced, "At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!"


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