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“Uriah” From
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(
light
). (1) A Hittite (
2 Sam. 11:3
3
And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite? (2 Samuel 11:3)
), and commander of one of the thirty divisions of
David
’s
army
(
2 Sam. 23:39
39
Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all. (2 Samuel 23:39)
;
1 Chron. 11:41
41
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, (1 Chronicles 11:41)
). He was
husband
of the beautiful
Bathsheba
whom David coveted, and with whom he had committed the crime of
adultery
(
2 Sam. 11:4-5
4
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
5
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child. (2 Samuel 11:4‑5)
). In order to conceal his crime and procure her for a wife, he ordered
Joab
, commander-in-chief, to place
Uriah
and his forces in the hottest part of the battle with
Ammon
, and then to
desert
him, leaving him to be overwhelmed and slain by superior numbers (
2 Sam. 11:15-17
15
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
16
And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
17
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also. (2 Samuel 11:15‑17)
). (2) A
high
priest
in the reign of
Ahaz
(
Isa. 8:2
2
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. (Isaiah 8:2)
), and probably the same as
Urijah
(
2 Kings 16:10-16
10
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
11
And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
12
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
13
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
14
And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar.
15
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.
16
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. (2 Kings 16:10‑16)
). (3) A priest of the family of
Hakkoz
, in
time
of
Ezra
, and
head
of the seventh priestly course (
Ezra 8:33
33
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites; (Ezra 8:33)
); written Urijah (
Neh. 3:4,21
4
And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. (Nehemiah 3:4)
21
After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib. (Nehemiah 3:21)
).
“Urijah” From
Boyd’s Bible Dictionary
:
(
light
of
God
). (1) A
priest
in the reign of
Ahaz
, and probably the same as
Uriah
(2) (
2 Kings 16:10-16
10
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
11
And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
12
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
13
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
14
And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar.
15
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.
16
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. (2 Kings 16:10‑16)
). (2) A priest of the family of
Hakkoz
or
Koz
, and probably same as Uriah (3) (
Neh. 3:4,21; 8:4
4
And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. (Nehemiah 3:4)
21
After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib. (Nehemiah 3:21)
4
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. (Nehemiah 8:4)
). (4) A
prophet
of
Kirjath-
jearim
, and
son
of
Shemaiah
, who prophesied in the days of King
Jehoiakim
against
Jerusalem
and
Judah
according to the words of
Jeremiah
, and whom Jehoiakim sought to
put
to
death
. He fled to
Egypt
, but was pursued, caught, brought back and slain (
Jer. 26:20-23
20
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
21
And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
22
And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
23
And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. (Jeremiah 26:20‑23)
).
“Uriah” From
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
A Hittite in
David
's
army
, with whose wife,
Bathsheba
, David committed
adultery
. The simple faithfulness of Uriah foiled David in his endeavor to cover his
sin
. David added to his iniquity by securing Uriah's
death
, with the connivance of
Joab
, at the hands of the
children
of
Ammon
(
2 Sam. 11:3-27
3
And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
4
And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her; for she was purified from her uncleanness: and she returned unto her house.
5
And the woman conceived, and sent and told David, and said, I am with child.
6
And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
7
And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
8
And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
9
But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
10
And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
11
And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.
12
And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
13
And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.
14
And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
15
And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
16
And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
17
And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
18
Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war;
19
And charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast made an end of telling the matters of the war unto the king,
20
And if so be that the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?
21
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
22
So the messenger went, and came and showed David all that Joab had sent him for.
23
And the messenger said unto David, Surely the men prevailed against us, and came out unto us into the field, and we were upon them even unto the entering of the gate.
24
And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king's servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
25
Then David said unto the messenger, Thus shalt thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing displease thee, for the sword devoureth one as well as another: make thy battle more strong against the city, and overthrow it: and encourage thou him.
26
And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
27
And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord. (2 Samuel 11:3‑27)
;
2 Sam. 12:9-15
9
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
10
Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
11
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.
12
For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before all Israel, and before the sun.
13
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.
14
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
15
And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick. (2 Samuel 12:9‑15)
;
2 Sam. 23:39
39
Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all. (2 Samuel 23:39)
;
1 Kings 15:5
5
Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite. (1 Kings 15:5)
;
1 Chron. 11:41
41
Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai, (1 Chronicles 11:41)
). He is called
URIAS
in
Matthew 1:6
6
And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias; (Matthew 1:6)
.
2.
Priest
whom Isaiah employed as a
faithful
witness
to record his prophecies (
Isa. 8:2
2
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah. (Isaiah 8:2)
). By the order of the king he built an
altar
at
Jerusalem
after the fashion of one seen by
Ahaz
at
Damascus
(
2 Kings 16:10-16
10
And king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and saw an altar that was at Damascus: and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and the pattern of it, according to all the workmanship thereof.
11
And Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus: so Urijah the priest made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
12
And when the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king approached to the altar, and offered thereon.
13
And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
14
And he brought also the brazen altar, which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar.
15
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.
16
Thus did Urijah the priest, according to all that king Ahaz commanded. (2 Kings 16:10‑16)
), where he is called
URIJAH
.
3.
Son
of
Koz
a priest, and
father
of
Meremoth
(
Ezra 8:33
33
Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites; (Ezra 8:33)
). Called URIJAH in
Nehemiah 3:4, 21
4
And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana. (Nehemiah 3:4)
21
After him repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah the son of Koz another piece, from the door of the house of Eliashib even to the end of the house of Eliashib. (Nehemiah 3:21)
.
“Urijah” From
Concise Bible Dictionary
:
1.
One who stood by the side of
Ezra
when he read the
book
of the
law
(
Neh. 8:4
4
And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam. (Nehemiah 8:4)
).
2.
Son
of
Shemaiah
: he prophesied against
Jerusalem
and the land, and then fled into
Egypt
, but was sent for by
Jehoiakim
and
put
to
death
(
Jer. 26:20-23
20
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name of the Lord, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjath-jearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
21
And when Jehoiakim the king, with all his mighty men, and all the princes, heard his words, the king sought to put him to death: but when Urijah heard it, he was afraid, and fled, and went into Egypt;
22
And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him into Egypt.
23
And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people. (Jeremiah 26:20‑23)
). See
URIAH
Nos. 2 and 3.
Strong’s Dictionary of Hebrew Words:
Number:
223
(
find all occurrences in KJV Bible
)
Transliteration:
’Uwriyah
Phonic:
oo-ree-yaw’
Meaning:
or (prolonged) Uwriyahuw {oo-ree-yaw'-hoo}; from
217
and
3050
; flame of Jah; Urijah, the name of one Hittite and five Israelites
KJV Usage:
Uriah, Urijah
Jackson’s
Dictionary of Scripture Proper Names
:
my light is Jah
Potts’
Bible Proper Names
:
The light, or fire, of God:―name of three Israelites, 1 Chron. 15:5. {Lux Dei}
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