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Urijah

also known as: Uriah

Meaning: The lord is my light.

This is the name of 2 priests and a prophet in the Bible.

Urijah, a high priest

He lived in the time of King 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 at the Holy Temple.

Urijah, a priest at the side of Ezra

This godly priest stood at the right hand of Ezra’s pulpit when he read and expounded the law to the Judeans who returned to Jerusalem from the Babylonian captivity.

Ezra the scribe stood on a wooden podium which they had made for the purpose. And beside him stood Mattithiah, Shema, Anaiah, Uriah, Hilkiah, and Maaseiah on his right hand; and Pedaiah, Mishael, Malchijah, Hashum, Hashbaddanah, Zechariah, and Meshullam on his left hand. —Neh. 8:4

Urijah, a prophet of Kirjath-jearim

He lived during the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah (Jeremiah 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.”