Uriah

Uriah is a Bathsheba's husband living at the time of the united monarchy. He is named in 22 verses of the Bible, first in 2 Samuel 11:3.

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Verses

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 11:3
  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?So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
• 2 Samuel 11:6
  And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.At this, David sent orders to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” So Joab sent him to David.
• 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.When Uriah came to him, David asked how Joab and the troops were doing with the war.
• 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.Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
• 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.But Uriah slept at the door of the palace with all his master’s servants; he did not go down to his house.
• 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?And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
• 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.Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
• 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.“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
• 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.The next morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah.
• 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.In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
• 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.So as Joab besieged the city, he assigned Uriah to a place where he saw the strongest enemy soldiers.
• 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.And when the men of the city came out and fought against Joab, some of David’s servants fell, and Uriah the Hittite also died.
• 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.Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If so, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
• 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.Then the archers shot at your servants from the wall, and some of the king’s servants were killed. And your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.”
• 2 Samuel 11:26
  And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.
• 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.Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.
• 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.Now, therefore, the sword will never depart from your house, because you have despised Me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your own.’
• 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.After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
• 2 Samuel 23:39
  Uriah the Hittite: thirty and seven in all.and Uriah the Hittite. There were thirty-seven in all.

1 Kings

• 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.For David had done what was right in the eyes of the LORD and had not turned aside from anything the LORD commanded all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

1 Chronicles

• 1 Chronicles 11:41
  Uriah the Hittite, Zabad the son of Ahlai,Uriah the Hittite, Zabad son of Ahlai,

Matthew

• Matthew 1:6
  And Jesse begat David the king; and David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias;and Jesse the father of David the king. Next: David was the father of Solomon by Uriah’s wife,

Notes

1. Names, family links and verses from STEPBible's Translators Individualised Proper Names (TIPNR), STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge), CC BY 4.0.
2. Where several people share a name, which verses belong to which person, and the family links, follow STEPBible's identifications; some are uncertain and are marked so.