Two men named Uriah appeared in the Bible:
Uriah the Hittite (Urias in the King James version), and Uriah the priest (Urijah in the King James version).
Both 2 Samuel 23:39 and 1 Chronicles 11:41
called Uriah, the Hittite, one of David's "mighty men". After king David lusted after Uriah's wife who he saw bathing on their rooftop, slept with her, then had him killed by sending him into battle at the front lines in
2 Samuel 11, he was chastised by the prophet Nathan. Uriah's wife had become pregnant with David's unborn son.
2 Samuel 12:9-15:
9. Why did you despise the word of the LORD by doing what is evil in his eyes? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife to be your own. You killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
10. Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you despised me and took the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.'
11. "This is what the LORD says: `Out of your own household I am going to bring calamity upon you. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to one who is close to you, and he will lie with your wives in broad daylight.
12. You did it in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.'"
13. Then David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." Nathan replied, "The LORD has taken away your sin. You are not going to die.
14. But because by doing this you have made the enemies of the LORD show utter contempt, the son born to you will die."
15. After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
1 Kings 15:5:
5. For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not failed to keep any of the LORD's commands all the days of his life--except in the case of Uriah the Hittite.
God punished David when the first boy born to Uriah's wife, Bathsheba, died soon after childbirth. She had a second son, Solomon in 2 Samuel 12:24-25:
24. Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. She gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. The LORD loved him;
25. and because the LORD loved him, he sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah.
In the lineage of Jesus, Matthew 1:6 made note of Solomon's mother, Bathsheba:
6. and Jesse the father of King David. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother had been Uriah's wife,
Since the Hittites came from Heth, Noah's great-grandson through Ham, Solomon is a a product of both the Semitic and Hamite lines.
Uriah the priest made an appearance prior to the return from exile in Babylonia. Since the priests came from the Levites, we can figure that more than likely Uriah the priest was Semitic. Jeremiah 26:20 named Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim as Uriah's father and in several verses it stated Uriah's son, Meremoth.
2 Kings 16:10-16:
10. Then King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria. He saw an altar in Damascus and sent to Uriah the priest a sketch of the altar, with detailed plans for its construction.
11. So Uriah the priest built an altar in accordance with all the plans that King Ahaz had sent from Damascus and finished it before King Ahaz returned.
12. When the king came back from Damascus and saw the altar, he approached it and presented offerings on it.
13. He offered up his burnt offering and grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his fellowship offerings on the altar.
14. The bronze altar that stood before the LORD he brought from the front of the temple--from between the new altar and the temple of the LORD--and put it on the north side of the new altar.
15. King Ahaz then gave these orders to Uriah the priest: "On the large new altar, offer the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering, the king's burnt offering and his grain offering,
and the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. Sprinkle on the altar all the blood of the burnt offerings and sacrifices. But I will use the
bronze altar for seeking guidance."
16. And Uriah the priest did just as King Ahaz had ordered.
Ezra 8:33:
33. On the fourth day, in the house of our God, we weighed out the silver and gold and the sacred articles into the hands of Meremoth son of Uriah, the priest. Eleazar son of Phinehas was with him, and so were the Levites Jozabad son of Jeshua and Noadiah son of Binnui.
Nehemiah 3:4, 21 noted Uriah's son, Meremoth during the reconstruction of the wall in Jerusalem.
4. Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired the next section. Next to him Meshullam son of Berekiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs, and next to him Zadok son of Baana also made repairs.
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21. Next to him, Meremoth son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, repaired another section, from the entrance of Eliashib's house to the end of it.
Uriah was among many during the reading of the Law in Nehemiah 8:4:
4. Ezra the scribe stood on a high wooden platform built for the occasion. Beside him on his right stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah and Maaseiah; and on his left were Pedaiah, Mishael, Malkijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.
Isaiah recognized the prophetic voice of Uriah prior to the rise of the Assyrians in Isaiah 8:2:
2. And I will call in Uriah the priest and Zechariah son of Jeberekiah as reliable witnesses for me."
Jeremiah 26:20-23 stated the death of Uriah the priest by Jehoiakim:
20. (Now Uriah son of Shemaiah from Kiriath Jearim was another man who prophesied in the name of the LORD; he prophesied the same things against this city and this land as Jeremiah did.
21. When King Jehoiakim and all his officers and officials heard his words, the king sought to put him to death. But Uriah heard of it and fled in fear to Egypt.
22. King Jehoiakim, however, sent Elnathan son of Acbor to Egypt, along with some other men.
23. They brought Uriah out of Egypt and took him to King Jehoiakim, who had him struck down with a sword and his body thrown into the burial place of the common people.)
