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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- 2Sam.11: 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?
- 2Sam.11: And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.
- 2Sam.11: And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered.
- 2Sam.11: 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.
- 2Sam.11: But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and went not down to his house.
- 2Sam.11: And when they had told David, saying, Uriah went not down unto his house, David said unto Uriah, Camest thou not from thy journey? why then didst thou not go down unto thine house?
- 2Sam.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.
- 2Sam.11: And David said to Uriah, Tarry here to day also, and to morrow I will let thee depart. So Uriah abode in Jerusalem that day, and the morrow.
- 2Sam.11: And it came to pass in the morning, that David wrote a letter to Joab, and sent it by the hand of Uriah.
- 2Sam.11: 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.
- 2Sam.11: And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.
- 2Sam.11: And the men of the city went out, and fought with Joab: and there fell some of the people of the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite died also.
- 2Sam.11: 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.
- 2Sam.11: And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.
- 2Sam.11: And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.
- 2Sam.12: 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.
- 2Sam.12: 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.
- 2Sam.12: And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
- 2Sam.23: Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.
- 1Kgs.15: 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.
- 1Chr.11: Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,
- Matt.1: And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;