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Uriah in Easton's Bible Dictionary

the Lord is my light. (1.) A Hittite, the husband of Bathsheba, whom David first seduced, and then after Uriah's death married. He was one of the band of David's "mighty men." The sad story of the curel wrongs inflicted upon him by David and of his mournful death are simply told in the sacred record (2 Sam. 11:2-12:26). (See BATHSHEBA -T0...

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Uriel in Hitchcock's Bible Names

same as Uriah...

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Unni in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(depressed). 1. One of the Levite doorkeepers in the time of David. 1Ch 15:18,20 (B.C. 1043.) 2. A second Levite (unless the family of the foregoing be intended) concerned in the sacred office after the return from Babylon. Ne 12:9 (B.C. 535.)...

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Uriah in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

("light of Jehovah".) (See DAVID; NATHAN; BATHSHEBA.) 1. One of the 30 commanders of the 30 bands of David's army (1 Chronicles 11:41; 2 Samuel 23:19). A foreigner (as other of David's officers, Ittai of Gath, Ishbosheth the Canaanite, Zelek the Ammonite, 2 Samuel 23:37); a Hittite. Eliam son of Ahithophel being one of his fellow officers (2...

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Urijah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

See URIAH, URIJAH....

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Unni in Easton's Bible Dictionary

afficted. (1.) A Levite whom David appointed to take part in bringing the ark up to Jerusalem from the house of Obed-edom by playing the psaltery on that occasion (1 Chr. 15:18, 20). (2.) A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel from the Captivity (Neh. 12:9)....

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Uriah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

or Urijah...

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Urijah in Naves Topical Bible

-1. A priest in Ahaz Builds a new altar for Ahaz 2Ki 16:10-16 Probably identical with Uriah, witness to a prophecy of Isaiah Isa 8:2 -2. URIJAH See URIAH, Number two -3. A priest Assistant to Ezra Ne 8:4 Called URIAH in the R. V -4. A prophet in the time of Jehoiakim Prophesies against Judah Jer 26:20 Fled to Egypt; taken; killed by ...

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Unni in Fausset's Bible Dictionary

1. A Levite doorkeeper; played the psaltery on (See ALAMOTH in the Zion tabernacle erected by David (1 Chronicles 15:18; 1 Chronicles 15:20). 2. A Levite who returned with Zerubbabel (Nehemiah 12:9)....

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Uriel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

u'-ri-el ('uri'-el, "flame of El (God)," or "El is my light"): (1) A Kohathite, said in 1 Ch 15:5 to be the chief of the sons of Kohath (1 Ch 6:24 (Hebrew verse 9); 15:5,11). He corresponds to Zephaniah in the pedigree of Heman in 1 Ch 6:33-38 (Hebrew 18-23). See Curtis, Chronicles, 130 f. (2) A man of Gibeah, and father of Micaiah the mother of...

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