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Biblical mile (Hebrew: מיל, romanized: mīl) is a unit of distance on land, or linear measure, principally used by Jews during the Herodian dynasty to ascertain distances between cities and to mark the Sabbath limit, equivalent to about ⅔ of an English statute mile, or what was about four furlongs (four stadia). [1]
A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible [1] [2] and ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance.. In the Bible, it is not as precisely defined as other Biblical measurements of distance; the distance has been estimated from 32 to 40 kilometers (20 to 25 miles).
The earliest Biblical passages which mention it (Exodus 20:10 and 24:21; Deut. 5:14; Amos 8:5) presuppose its previous existence, and analysis of all the references to it in the canon makes it plain that its observance was neither general nor altogether spontaneous in either pre-exilic or post-exilic Israel.
The Emmaus in the Gospel of Luke seems to lie some 12.1 km (7.5 mi) from Jerusalem, though a textual minor variant, conserved in Codex Sinaiticus, gives the distance between the New Testament Emmaus and Jerusalem as 160 stadia. [15] The geographical position of Emmaus is described in the Jerusalem Talmud, Tractate Sheviit 9.2: [16]
The biblical story of the Concubine of the Hill from the Book of Judges, leading up to the battle of Gibeah , tells of a small family caravan journeying on the ridge route from Bethlehem towards Jerusalem. Gibeah is generally identified with Tell el-Fūl. [citation needed]
The biblical reference for the Jesus Trail is based on a verse from the New Testament Gospel of Matthew wherein at the start of Jesus' public ministry he is described as moving from his home-town of Nazareth, located in the hills of the Galilee, down to Capernaum which was a lakeside fishing village on the Sea of Galilee, where Jesus is described as gathering his first disciples.
There is an annual Palm Sunday walk into Jerusalem which begins in Bethphage. [6] Eusebius (Onom 58:13) located it on the Mount of Olives. [4] It was likely on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho and the limit of a Sabbath-day's journey from Jerusalem, [7] i.e., 2,000 cubits.
Tel Dothan. Dothan (Hebrew: דֹתָן ) (also Dotan) was a location mentioned twice in the Hebrew Bible.It has been identified with Tel Dothan (Arabic: تل دوثان), also known as Tel al-Hafireh, located adjacent to the Palestinian town of Bir al-Basha, [1] and ten kilometers (driving distance) southwest of Jenin in the West Bank, near Dotan Junction of Route 60.