Uriah אוּרִיָּה

Bathsheba's husband. Uriah was a Hittite soldier in David's army, the husband of Bathsheba, who was killed in battle as part of David's plan to cover up his adultery with Bathsheba.

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Also called Urias.

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Where Uriah appears

2 Samuel (19), 1 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), Matthew (1)

Key verses

• 2 Samuel 11:3 first mention — And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?
• 2 Samuel 11:6 — And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
• 2 Samuel 11:8 — And David said to Uriah, Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet. And Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king.
• 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.
• 2 Samuel 11:14 — And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
• 2 Samuel 11:15 — And he wrote in the letter, saying, Set ye Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retire ye from him, that he may be smitten, and die.
• 2 Samuel 11:16 — And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
• 2 Samuel 11:21 — Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
• 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.
• 2 Samuel 12:10 — Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thine house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.
• 1 Kings 15:5 — Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
• Matthew 1:6 — And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;

Person data: STEPBible.org TIPNR, Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0), adapted. Several people in the Bible share this name; this page is about the one described above. Verse text: King James Version.