Urijah

The lord is my light. (1.) 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. (2.) One of the priests who stood at the right hand of Ezra’s pulpit when he read and expounded the law (Neh. 8:4). (3.) A prophet of Kirjath-jearim in the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah (Jer. 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.”

(light of Jehovah).

URI'JAH (flame of Jehovah). High priest in the reign of Ahaz, 2 Kgs 16:10-16; called Uriah in Isa 8:2; complied subserviently with the demand of the king to make an altar after the idolatrous pattern of that of Damascus, and to offer sacrifices on it. The son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim; prophesied in the days of Jehoiakim, and fled from the king's wrath to Egypt, but was seized there, brought back, and slain. Jer 26:20-23, A priest of the family of Koz, the ancestor of Meremoth, Neh 3:4, 2 Chr 11:21; perhaps the same as mentioned in Neh 8:4.

URI'JAH (flame of Jehovah). High priest in the reign of Ahaz, 2 Kgs 16:10-16; called Uriah in Isa 8:2; complied subserviently with the demand of the king to make an altar after the idolatrous pattern of that of Damascus, and to offer sacrifices on it. The son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim; prophesied in the days of Jehoiakim, and fled from the king's wrath to Egypt, but was seized there, brought back, and slain. Jer 26:20-23, U'RIM and THUM'MIM (light and perfection) denote some part of the high priest's apparel. In Ex 28:15-30 it is prescribed that the Urim and Thummim shall be placed beneath the breastplate, in order to be on the high priest's heart when he goes in before the Lord; and when Aaron was arrayed, Moses himself put the Urim and Thummim into the breastplate. Lev 8:8. In the blessings of Moses he speaks of the Urim and Thummim as the crowning glory of the Levite tribe; and when Joshua is solemnly appointed to succeed him. Num 27:21, the high priest, Eleazar, is said to ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim. But nowhere in Scripture are the Urim and Thummim described, and, as Jewish tradition can give no information, we do not know what they really were.