Urijah in Biblical History

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Who is Urijah?
URI'JAH
(flame of Jehovah). 1. High priest in the reign of Ahaz, 2 Kgs 16:10-16; called Uriah in Isa 8:2; complied subserviently with the demand of the king to make an altar after the idolatrous pattern of that of Damascus, and to offer sacrifices on it. 2. The son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim; prophesied in the days of Jehoiakim, and fled from the king's wrath to Egypt, but was seized there, brought back, and slain. Jer 26:20-23, 1. A priest of the family of Koz, the ancestor of Meremoth, Neh 3:4, 2 Chr 11:21; perhaps the same as mentioned in Neh 8:4.

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