The king and all the people set out on foot, pausing ¹  at a spot ²  some distance away.

They detest me and maintain their distance; ¹  they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

From the front of the entrance gate to the porch of the inner gate was 87½ feet. ¹ 

Meanwhile the boat, already far from land, ¹  was taking a beating from the waves because the wind was against it.

So she went to visit ¹  the prophet at Mount Carmel. When he ²  saw her at a distance, he said to his servant Gehazi, “Look, it’s the Shunammite woman.

The tax collector, however, stood ¹  far off and would not even look up ²  to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, be merciful ³  to me, sinner that I am!’ ⁴ 

They will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment, and will say, “Woe, woe, O great city, Babylon the powerful city! For in a single hour your doom ¹  has come!”

He entrusted them to ¹  his servants, who divided them into herds. ²  He told his servants, “Pass over before me, and keep some distance between one herd and the next.”

At the sound of the trumpet, it says, ‘Aha!’ And from a distance it catches the scent of battle, the thunderous shouting of commanders, and the battle cries.

He measured the gateway from the roof of one alcove to the roof of the other, a width of 43¾ feet ¹  from one entrance to the opposite one.

Opposite the gate on the north and the east was a gate of the inner court; he measured the distance from gate to gate at 175 feet. ¹ 

The circumference of the city will be six miles. ¹  The name of the city from that day forward will be: ‘The Lord Is There.’” ² 

When he ¹  blesses you, if the ²  place where he chooses to locate his name is distant,

Esau took his wives, his sons, his daughters, all the people in his household, his livestock, his animals, and all his possessions which he had acquired in the land of Canaan and went to a land some distance away from ¹  Jacob his brother

Otherwise the blood avenger will chase after the killer in the heat of his anger, eventually overtake him, ¹  and kill him, ²  though this is not a capital case ³  since he did not hate him at the time of the accident.

All humanity has seen it; people gaze on it from afar.

Certainly you will see it with your very own eyes – you will see the wicked paid back. ¹ 

I will have nothing to do with a perverse person; ¹  I will not permit ²  evil.

May there be peace inside your defenses, and prosperity ¹  inside your fortresses! ² 

For my husband ¹  is not at home; ²  he has gone on a journey of some distance.