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Uriah

Also called Urias

Mentioned in 22 verses across 4 books, first in 2 Samuel 11:3. The verses below are the ones linked to this person (the Theographic dataset, with our sourced corrections).

In the Bible

All 22 verses, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Samuel

  • 2 Samuel 11:3

    So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”

  • 2 Samuel 11:6

    At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.

  • 2 Samuel 11:7

    When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing with the war.

  • 2 Samuel 11:8

    Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.

  • 2 Samuel 11:9

    But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.

  • 2 Samuel 11:10

    And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”

  • 2 Samuel 11:11

    Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”

  • 2 Samuel 11:12

    “Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.

  • 2 Samuel 11:14

    The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.

  • 2 Samuel 11:15

    In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”

  • 2 Samuel 11:16

    So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.

  • 2 Samuel 11:17

    And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.

  • 2 Samuel 11:21

    Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If so, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”

  • 2 Samuel 11:24

    Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”

  • 2 Samuel 11:26

    When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

  • 2 Samuel 12:9

    Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

  • 2 Samuel 12:10

    Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’

  • 2 Samuel 12:15

    After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

  • 2 Samuel 23:39

    and Uriah the Hittite. There were thirty-seven in all.

1 Kings

  • 1 Kings 15:5

    For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Chronicles

Matthew

  • Matthew 1:6

    and Jesse the father of David the king. Next: David was the father of Solomon by Uriah’s wife,

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. The entry is for the name and can describe more than one person who bore it. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

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).

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