Adverb palai (long ago) in the Bible

(Translation from NRSV for the New Testament and Brenton for the Septuagint with a few modifications for a more literal meaning)

Matthew

11: 21"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago (palai) in sackcloth and ashes.

Mark

15: 44Then Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and summoning the centurion, he asked him how long ago (palai) he had been dead.

Luke

10: 13"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago (palai), sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

2 Corinthians

12: 19Have you been thinking that we have been defending ourselves long ago (palai) before you? We are speaking in Christ before God. Everything we do, beloved, is for the sake of building you up.

Hebrews

1: 1Long ago (palai) God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets,

2 Peter

1: 9For anyone who lacks these things is nearsighted and blind, and is forgetful that he has been cleansed long ago (palai) of sins.

Jude

1: 4For certain intruders have stolen in among you, people who long ago (palai) were designated for this condemnation as ungodly, who pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Isaiah (LXX)

37: 26Hast thou not heard of these things which I did long ago (palai)? I appointed them from ancient times; but now have I manifested my purpose of desolating nations in their strong holds, and them that dwell in strong cities.
48: 5 And I told thee long ago (palai) what should be before it came upon thee; I made it known to thee, lest thou shouldest say, My idols have done it for me; and shouldest say, My graven and molten images have commanded me.
48: 7 Now they come to pass, and not long ago (palai): and thou heardest not of them in former days: say not thou, Yea, I know them.

Esther (LXX)

3: 13gthat the people, ill-disposed to us now and long ago (palai), having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well constituted and quiet state of affairs.]

Wisdom (LXX)

11: 14For whom they rejected with scorn, when he was long ago (palai) thrown out at the casting forth of the infants, him in the end, when they saw what came to pass, they admired.
12: 3For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those who inhabited long ago (palai) thy holy land,
12: 27For, look, for what things they grudged, when they were punished, that is, for them whom they thought to be gods; [now] being punished in them, when they saw it, they acknowledged him to be the true God, whom they denied long ago (palai) to know; and therefore came extreme damnation upon them.

3 Maccabees (LXX)

4: 1Wherever this decree was received, the people kept up a revelry of joy and shouting; as their inveterate hatred, felt long ago (palai), were now to shew itself openly.