Jeremiah 23:23
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Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?

Acts 17:27
That they should seek God, if haply they may feel after him or find him, although he be not far from every one of us.

Psalm 139:1
Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me:

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Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?

1 Kings 20:23,28 But the servants of the king of Syria said to him: Their gods are gods of the hills, therefore they have overcome us: but it is better that we should fight against them in the plains, and we shall overcome them. . . .

Psalm 113:5 Who is as the Lord our God, who dwelleth on high:

Psalm 139:1-10 Unto the end, a psalm of David. Lord, thou hast proved me, and known me: . . .

Ezekiel 20:32-35 Neither shall the thought of your mind come to pass, by which you say: We will be as the Gentiles, and as the families of the earth, to worship stocks and stones. . . .

Jonah 1:3,4 Arise and go to Ninive, the great city, and preach in it: For the wickedness thereof is come up before me. . . .

Context
Lying Prophets
22If they had stood in my counsel, and had made my words known to my people, I should have turned them from their evil way, and from their wicked doings. 23Am I, think ye, a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?24Shall a man be hid in secret places, and I not see him, saith the Lord? do not I fill heaven and earth, saith the Lord?…
Lexicon
“Am I [only]
אָ֖נִי (’ā·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew 589: I

a God
הַאֱלֹהֵ֧י (ha·’ĕ·lō·hê)
Article | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

nearby,”
מִקָּרֹ֛ב (miq·qā·rōḇ)
Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7138: Near

declares
נְאֻם־ (nə·’um-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 5002: An oracle

the LORD,
יְהוָ֑ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

“and not
וְלֹ֥א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

a God
אֱלֹהֵ֖י (’ĕ·lō·hê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

far away?”
מֵרָחֹֽק׃ (mê·rā·ḥōq)
Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7350: Remote, of place, time, precious


Additional Translations
“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”Am I a God at hand, said the LORD, and not a God afar off?

Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?

I am a God nigh at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off.

Am I a God at hand, saith Jehovah, and not a God afar off?

Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off?

Am I a God at hand, saith the LORD, and not a God afar off.

Am I a God at hand, says Yahweh, and not a God afar off?

A God near am I -- an affirmation of Jehovah, And not a God afar off?
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