43 Bible Verses about distance
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And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee;
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
For thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.
And there were also women beholding from afar: among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
And they seized him, and led him away , and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed afar off.
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose:
And the winepress are trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
But the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote his breast, saying, God, be thou merciful to me a sinner.
As far as the east is from the west, So far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
And he arose, and came to his father. But while he was yet afar off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, So great is his lovingkindness toward them that fear him.
And many women were there beholding from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto him:
Now there was afar off from them a herd of many swine feeding.
And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs.
Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar.
And they saw him afar off, and before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.
For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.
Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;
And he said unto Moses, Come up unto Jehovah, thou, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship ye afar off:
so that the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the noise was heard afar off.
And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood over against them afar off: and they two stood by the Jordan.
for in an hour so great riches is made desolate. And every shipmaster, and every one that saileth any wither, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood afar off,
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage; Neither believeth he that it is the voice of the trumpet.
Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it without the camp, afar off from the camp; and he called it, The tent of meeting. And it came to pass, that every one that sought Jehovah went out unto the tent of meeting, which was without the camp.
And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
It shall be eighteen thousand reeds round about: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah is there.
And all the people perceived the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the voice of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking: and when the people saw it, they trembled, and stood afar off.
And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot. For she said, Let me not look upon the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
But Peter followed him afar off, unto the court of the high priest, and entered in, and sat with the officers, to see the end.
The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;
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Seeing At A Distance
Genesis 22:4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.