315. Day's Journey

Listen from:
1 Kings 19:4. But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness.
This is a very ancient mode of estimating distances, and is still in use. A “day’s journey” varies, according to circumstances, from eighteen miles to thirty. The ordinary day’s journey of Scripture is probably not far from twenty miles. See also Genesis 30:36; 31:23; Exodus 5:3; 8:27; Numbers 11:31; Deuteronomy 1:2; 2 Kings 3:9; Luke 2:44.
The “Sabbath day’s journey” was a less distance. See note on Acts 1:12 (#824).