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Uriah in the Bible

Loyal enough to refuse the comfort of his own house while the ark and the army are in tents, Uriah carries the letter ordering his own death. Matthew's genealogy will not let the story go: Solomon is born "of her that had been the wife of Urias".

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Verses mentioning Uriah

28 occurrences across 23 verses in the King James Version.

  1. 2 Samuel 11:3

    And David sent and enquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

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  2. 2 Samuel 11:6

    And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

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  3. 2 Samuel 11:7

    And when Uriah was come unto him, David demanded of him how Joab did, and how the people did, and how the war prospered. how Joab: Heb. of the peace of, etc

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  4. 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. followed: Heb. went out after him

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  5. 2 Samuel 11:9

    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.

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  6. 2 Samuel 11:10

    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?

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  7. 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.

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  8. 2 Samuel 11:12

    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.

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  9. 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.

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  10. 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. hottest: Heb. strong from him: Heb. from after him

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  11. 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.

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  12. 2 Samuel 11:17

    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.

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  13. 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.

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  14. 2 Samuel 11:24

    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.

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  15. 2 Samuel 11:26

    And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.

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  16. 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.

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  17. 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.

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  18. 2 Samuel 12:15

    And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.

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  19. 2 Samuel 23:39

    Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.

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  20. 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.

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  21. 1 Chronicles 11:41

    Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,

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  22. Ezra 8:33

    Now on the fourth day was the silver and the gold and the vessels weighed in the house of our God by the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest; and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, Levites;

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  23. Isaiah 8:2

    And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.

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