'Afar' in the Bible

All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off.

Is this your joyous city , whose antiquity is of ancient days, whose feet carried her afar off to sojourn?

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold a land that reacheth afar.

And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.

And I will set a sign among them, and I will send such as escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.