("Yah is light")
1. A Hittite, one of the foreigners listed among David's thirty "mighty men" (II Sam 23:39; I Chr 11:41).
His permanent residence was in Jerusalem. After his wife, Bathsheba, conceived to David, the king summoned Uriah to Jerusalem from the battlefield, ostensibly to bring him news of the campaign, but in fact, in order to cover up his misdeed. However, Uriah, out of loyalty to his comrades who were camped in the open fields refused to go home and sleep with his wife. Instead he lay down by the palace gate with the king's slaves. David then dispatched Uriah back to the battlefield with a letter to his commander Joab, ordering Joab to station Uriah in the front line so that he would be killed. After Uriah's death, Bathsheba became David's wife and bore him a son (II Sam 11:3-27). The prophet Nathan in a parable denounced the sin of the king which the latter then admitted (II Sam 12:1-15).
2. The chief priest in the days of Ahaz, king of Judah. He replaced the former bronze Temple altar with a new one patterned on the altar of Damascus, according to detailed instructions sent to him from Damascus by King Ahaz who had gone there to meet the Assyrian king Tiglath-Pileser III (II Kgs 16:10-16). This Uriah is most probably identical with the priest whom Isaiah summoned as a witness when he wrote his oracle concerning Samaria on a tablet (Is 8:2).
3. The son of Shemaiah of Kirjath Jearim, a prophet at the time of Jeremiah. His prophecy against the city and the kingdom angered King Jehoiakim, who sought to put him to death. Uriah fled to Egypt, but Elnathan son of Akbor was sent to fetch him. Jehoiakim slew him and had his body flung into a common graveyard (Jer 26:20-23).
4. The father of Meremoth, a descendant of Hakkoz (Ezra 8:33; Neh 3:4-21).
5. One of the men who stood by Ezra during the public reading of the Law (Neh 8:4).
Concordance
UR:
Gen 11:28, 31; 15:7. I Chr 11:35. Neh 9:7
URI 1:
Ex 31:2; 35:30; 38:22. I Chr 2:20. II Chr 1:5
URI 2:
I Kgs 4:19
URI 3:
Ezra 10:24
URIAH, URIJAH 1:
II Sam 11:3,6-12, 14-17,21, 24, 26; 12:9-10, 15; 23:39. I Kgs 15:5. I Chr 11:41. Matt 1:6
URIAH, URIJAH 2:
II Kgs 16:10-11, 16. Is 8:2
URIAH, URIJAH 3:
Jer 26:20-21,23
URIAH, URIJAH 4:
Ezra 8:33. Neh 3:4, 21
URIAH, URIJAH 5:
Neh 8:4
