43 Bible Verses about distance
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And if the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, or if the place is too far from you, which Jehovah your God shall choose to set His name there, when Jehovah your God has blessed you,
Yet keep a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near it, so that you may know the way by which you must go. For you have not passed this way before now.
Yet you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there to the land which I am giving to the sons of Israel.
And also women were watching from a distance, among whom also was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less, and of Joses, and Salome,
And laying hold on Him, they led Him away and brought Him into the high priest's house. And Peter followed afar off.
Then 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 to the thick darkness where God was.
then you shall turn it into silver and bind up the silver in your hand, and shall go to the place which Jehovah your God shall choose.
And the winepress was trodden outside the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, for the space of a thousand, six hundred stadia.
And standing afar off, the tax-collector would not even lift up his eyes to Heaven, but struck on his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner!
As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.
And he arose and came to his father. But when he was still a great way off, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.
For as the heavens are high above the earth, so is His mercy toward those who fear Him.
And many of the women were there, watching from a distance, those who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering to Him, watching from a distance;
My lovers and my friends stand apart from my plague; and my neighbors stand far off.
And seeing a fig-tree with leaves afar off, He went to it, if perhaps He might find anything on it. And when He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season of figs.
Your eyes shall see the king in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off.
And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near them, they conspired against him to kill him.
These all died by way of faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off. And they were persuaded of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
For though I am absent in the flesh, yet I am with you in the spirit, rejoicing and beholding your order and the steadfastness of your faith in Christ.
And David went over to the other side and stood on the top of a hill afar off, a great space between them.
And He said to Moses, Come up to Jehovah, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel. And bow yourselves afar off.
so that the people could not tell 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 on and stood afar off across from them. And both of them stood by the Jordan.
For in one hour such great riches was desolated. And every ship-pilot, and all the company on the ships, and sailors, and as many as work the sea, stood afar off.
He swallows the ground with quivering and rage; and he does not stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
And Moses took the tabernacle and pitched it outside the camp, afar off from the camp, and called it the tabernacle of the congregation. And it happened, everyone who sought Jehovah went out to the tabernacle of the congregation, which was outside the camp.
And in hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torments, and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
All around it shall be eighteen thousand cubits. And the name of the city from that day shall be JEHOVAH IS THERE.
Do not turn to the right hand nor to the left; remove your foot from evil.
And all the people saw the thunderings, and the lightnings, and the noise of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. And when the people saw, they trembled, and stood afar off.
And she went and sat down across from him, a good way off, about a bowshot. For she said, Let me not see the death of the boy. And she sat across from him, and lifted up her voice, and cried.
But Peter followed Him afar off to the high priest's court, and he went in and sat with the servants to see the end.
The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand afar off because of the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning
Topics on Distance
Seeing At A Distance
Genesis 22:4Then on the third day, Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place afar off.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16And the water was gone in the bottle, and she cast the boy under one of the shrubs.