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Uriah the Hittite in Wikipedia

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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Uriah Scripture - 2 Samuel 11:11

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....

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Uriah Scripture - 2 Samuel 11:24

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....

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Uriah Scripture - 2 Samuel 12:9

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....

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Uriah in Naves Topical Bible

-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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Uriah in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(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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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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Uriah in Hitchcock's Bible Names

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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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Uriah in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

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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