'Distance' in the Bible

On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.

He entrusted them to his slaves as separate herds and said to them, “Go on ahead of me, and leave some distance between the herds.”

They set out from Bethel. When they were still some distance from Ephrath, Rachel began to give birth, and her labor was difficult.

They saw him in the distance, and before he had reached them, they plotted to kill him.

When I was returning from Paddan, to my sorrow Rachel died along the way, some distance from Ephrath in the land of Canaan. I buried her there along the way to Ephrath,” (that is, Bethlehem).

Then his sister stood at a distance in order to see what would happen to him.

We must go a distance of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He instructs us.”

All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the sound of the trumpet, and the mountain surrounded by smoke. When the people saw it they trembled and stood at a distance.

And the people remained standing at a distance as Moses approached the thick darkness where God was.

Then He said to Moses, “Go up to the Lord, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and 70 of Israel’s elders, and bow in worship at a distance.

“The Israelites are to camp under their respective banners beside the flags of their ancestral houses. They are to camp around the tent of meeting at a distance from it:

But if the distance is too great for you to carry it, since the place where Yahweh your God chooses to put His name is too far away from you and since the Lord your God has blessed you,

Otherwise, the avenger of blood in the heat of his anger might pursue the one who committed manslaughter, overtake him because the distance is great, and strike him dead. Yet he did not deserve to die, since he did not previously hate his neighbor.

your elders and judges must come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

Although from a distance you will view the land that I am giving the Israelites, you will not go there.”

But keep a distance of about 1,000 yards between yourselves and the ark. Don’t go near it, so that you can see the way to go, for you haven’t traveled this way before.”

After they were some distance from Micah’s house, the men who were in the houses near it mobilized and caught up with the Danites.

David crossed to the other side and stood on top of the mountain at a distance; there was a considerable space between them.

Fifty men from the sons of the prophets came and stood facing them from a distance while the two of them stood by the Jordan.

So she set out and went to the man of God at Mount Carmel.When the man of God saw her at a distance, he said to his attendant Gehazi, “Look, there’s the Shunammite woman.

So he said to him, “Go in peace.”After Naaman had traveled a short distance from Elisha,

When they looked from a distance, they could barely recognize him. They wept aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust into the air and on his head.

They despise me and keep their distance from me;they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

All mankind has seen it;people have looked at it from a distance.

When the trumpet blasts, he snorts defiantly.He smells the battle from a distance;he hears the officers’ shouts and the battle cry.

From there it searches for prey;its eyes penetrate the distance.

My loved ones and friends stand back from my affliction,and my relatives stand at a distance.

All the brothers of a poor man hate him;how much more do his friendskeep their distance from him!He may pursue them with words,but they are not there.

Does the snow of Lebanon ever leave the highland crags?Or does cold water flowing from a distance ever fail?

Then he measured the gateway from the roof of one recess to the roof of the opposite one; the distance was 43¾ feet. The openings of the recesses faced each other.

The distance from the front of the gate at the entrance to the front of the gate’s portico on the inside was 87½ feet.

Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gate to the exterior front of the inner court; it was 175 feet. This was the east; next the north is described.

The inner court had a gate facing the north gate, like the one on the east. He measured the distance from gate to gate; it was 175 feet.

The distance from the gutter on the ground to the lower ledge is 3½ feet, and the width of the ledge is 21 inches. There are seven feet from the small ledge to the large ledge, whose width is also 21 inches.

Meanwhile, Peter was following Him at a distance right to the high priest’s courtyard. He went in and was sitting with the temple police to see the outcome.

Many women who had followed Jesus from Galilee and ministered to Him were there, looking on from a distance.

When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and knelt down before Him.

If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, and some of them have come a long distance.”

After seeing in the distance a fig tree with leaves, He went to find out if there was anything on it. When He came to it, He found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs.

Peter followed Him at a distance, right into the high priest’s courtyard. He was sitting with the temple police, warming himself by the fire.

There were also women looking on from a distance. Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the younger and of Joses, and Salome.

As He entered a village, 10 men with serious skin diseases met Him. They stood at a distance

They seized Him, led Him away, and brought Him into the high priest’s house. Meanwhile Peter was following at a distance.

But all who knew Him, including the women who had followed Him from Galilee, stood at a distance, watching these things.

These all died in faith without having received the promises, but they saw them from a distance, greeted them, and confessed that they were foreigners and temporary residents on the earth.