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Urijah

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1

The lord is my light.

2

A high priest in the time of Ahaz (2 Kgs 16:10-16), at whose bidding he constructed an idolatrous altar like one the king had seen at Damascus, to be set up instead of the brazen altar.

3

One of the priests who stood at the right hand of Ezra’s pulpit when he read and expounded the law (Neh 8:4).

4

A prophet of Kirjath-jearim in the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah (Jer 26:20-23). He fled into Egypt from the cruelty of the king, but having been brought back he was beheaded and his body “cast into the graves of the common people.”

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

See URIAH, URIJAH.

See also

Person Urijah (2 Kgs 16,10) Person Urijah (Neh 8,4) Person Urijah (Jer 26,20)

Kilde: Easton's Bible Dictionary (M.G. Easton, 1897) og International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (red. James Orr, 1915/1939), public domain. Translated into Danish with AI and not yet proofread (fully or partially). Links to people and places: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0).