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Rulers were the ones who ordered that statues should be worshipped: people who could not honour them in person, because they lived too far away, would have a portrait made of their distant countenance, to have an image that they could see of the king whom they honoured; meaning, by such zeal, to flatter the absent as if he were present. (Wisdom of Solomon 14, 17)
He determined his works for all time, from their origins to their distant generations. They know neither hunger nor weariness, and they never desert their duties. (Ecclesiasticus 16, 27)
Your name reached the distant islands, and you were loved for your peace. (Ecclesiasticus 47, 16)
He hoists a signal for a distant nation, he whistles them up from the ends of the earth; and see how swift, how fleet they come! (Isaiah 5, 26)
When that day comes, Yahweh will whistle up mosquitoes from the distant streams of Egypt and bees from the land of Assyria, (Isaiah 7, 18)
They come from a distant country, from the far horizons, Yahweh and the instruments of his fury to lay the whole country waste. (Isaiah 13, 5)
The prophet Isaiah then came to King Hezekiah and asked him, 'What have these men said, and where have they come to you from?' Hezekiah answered, 'They have come from a distant country, from Babylon.' (Isaiah 39, 3)
I call a bird of prey from the east, my man predestined, from a distant land. What I have said, I shall do, what I have planned, I shall perform. (Isaiah 46, 11)
Coasts and islands, listen to me, pay attention, distant peoples. Yahweh called me when I was in the womb, before my birth he had pronounced my name. (Isaiah 49, 1)
I shall give them a sign and send some of their survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coasts and islands that have never heard of me or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory to the nations, (Isaiah 66, 19)
Report it to the nations, proclaim it to Jerusalem, 'Enemies are coming from a distant country, shouting their war cry against the towns of Judah; (Jeremiah 4, 16)
What do I care about incense imported from Sheba, or fragrant cane from a distant country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, your sacrifices do not please me.' (Jeremiah 6, 20)
