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Urijah

also called Uriah

Easton’s Bible Dictionary

A high priest in the time of Ahaz (2 Kings 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.

From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.

Named in 5 verses

2 Kings: 16:10, 16:11, 16:15, 16:16
Isaiah: 8:2

The family, dates and events on this page come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is a work in progress, and its dates follow one reconstruction of biblical chronology among several. The dictionary article above is separately in the public domain.