43 Bible Verses about distance
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If the way is too long for you, so that you are not able to carry it, because the place is too far from you, which Yahweh your God shall choose, to set his name there, when Yahweh your God shall bless you;
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before."
For you shall see the land before you; but you shall not go there into the land which I give the children of Israel."
There were also women watching from afar, among whom were both Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James the less and of Joses, and Salome;
They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest's house. But Peter followed from a distance.
The people stayed at a distance, and Moses drew near to the thick darkness where God was.
then you shall turn it into money, and bind up the money in your hand, and shall go to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose:
The winepress was trodden outside of the city, and blood came out from the winepress, even to the bridles of the horses, as far as one thousand six hundred stadia.
But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn't even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'
"He arose, and came to his father. But while he was still far 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 loving kindness toward those who fear him.
Many women were there watching from afar, who had followed Jesus from Galilee, serving him.
Now there was a herd of many pigs feeding far away from them.
Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.
They saw him afar off, and before he came near to them, they conspired against him to kill him.
For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them and embraced 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, rejoicing and seeing your order, and the steadfastness 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;
He said to Moses, "Come up to Yahweh, you, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship from a distance.
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.
Fifty men of the sons of the prophets went, and stood opposite them at a distance; and they both stood by the Jordan.
For in an hour such great riches are made desolate.' Every shipmaster, and everyone who sails anywhere, and mariners, and as many as gain their living by sea, stood far away,
He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.
Now Moses used to take the tent and to pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp, and he called it "The Tent of Meeting." It happened that everyone who sought Yahweh went out to the Tent of Meeting, which was outside the camp.
In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.
It shall be eighteen thousand [reeds] around: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Yahweh is there.
All the people perceived the thunderings, the lightnings, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain smoking. When the people saw it, they trembled, and stayed at a distance.
She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
But Peter followed him from a distance, to 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, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning;
Topics on Distance
Seeing At A Distance
Genesis 22:4On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place far off.
Weights And Measures, Distances
Genesis 21:15-16The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.