Uriah
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....
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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....
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Uriah the Hittite (Hebrew: אוריה החתי) was a soldier in King
David’s army mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. He was the husband
of Bathsheba, and was murdered by order of David by having the
soldiers retreat from him in battle. Uriah's wife was pregnant
by King David through an adulterous affair. Although under
David's order to return home and see...
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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....
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u-ri'-a, u-ri'-ja ('uriyah, in Jer 26:20 'uriyahu, "flame of
Yahweh" or "my light is Yahweh"; the Septuagint and the New
Testament Our(e)ias, with variants; the King James Version
has Urijah in 2 Ki 16:10-16; Neh 3:4,21; 8:4; Jer 26:20):
(1) A Hittite, who had settled in Jerusalem at the time of
David and who had entered David's service. He had...
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-1. One of David's mighty men
2Sa 23:39; 1Ch 11:41
David's adultery with the wife of
2Sa 11:2-5; 1Ki 15:5
Summoned from seat of war by David
2Sa 11:6-13
Noble spirit of
2Sa 11:11
David compasses the death of
2Sa 11:14-25
David marries the widow of
2Sa 11:26,27
Called URIAS (A. V.)
Mt 1:6
-2. A priest
The father of Meremoth
Ezr 8:33
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(light of Jehovah).
1. One of the thirty commanders of the thirty bands
into which the Israelite army of David was divided. 1Ch
11:41; 2Sa 23:39 Like others of David's officers he was a
foreigner--a Hittite. His name, however and his manner of
speech 2Sa 11:11 indicate that he had adopted the Jewish
religion. He married Bath-sheba a woman of ...
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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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("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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