4 others in the registry answer to the name Uriah. Every Uriah in the Bible

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Uriah

אוּרִיָּה

Uriah was a priest during the reign of King Ahaz who followed the king's instructions in building a new altar based on a pagan model from Damascus.

verses
5
first named
2 Kings 16:10
last named
Isaiah 8:2
period
Divided Monarchy
role
Man

Description

Who was Uriah?

In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

Uriah was a priest who served during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah (2Ki.16.10-16; Isa.8.2). When Ahaz visited Damascus to meet with the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser, he saw a pagan altar that impressed him. Ahaz sent a model of the altar to Uriah, instructing him to build a replica in Jerusalem. Uriah faithfully followed the king's instructions and built the altar. Upon Ahaz's return, the king made offerings on the new altar and modified the temple's ritual to accommodate it, displacing the bronze altar prescribed by God. Uriah's compliance with the king's orders, despite their departure from proper worship, reflects the religious compromise and syncretism that characterized Ahaz's reign. The prophet Isaiah mentions Uriah as a witness to his prophecy about the coming Immanuel (Isa.8.2), suggesting that Uriah was a recognized figure in Jerusalem's priestly community.

Relations

Direct connections

Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

How the graph connects Uriah 5 of 5 entities the graph connects to Uriah, in one group: events 5. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Damascus1 event · 55 versesAhaz2 events · 37 versesObedience1 event · 29 versesAltar1 event · 4 versesZechariah1 event · 1 verseUriah

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Places

Where this happens

The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

Where the story of Uriah happens The one place the claims about Uriah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Damascus. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Uriah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Damascus
Divided MonarchyThe one place the claims about Uriah reach

The pattern

Where Uriah is named

Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

Where the name is written across the corpus. 5 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKS2 KINGS4 VERSESISAIAH1 VERSE43 books and 444 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 5 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKS2 KINGS4 VERSESISAIAH1 VERSE43 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT

5 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Kings (4) and Isaiah (1).

Uriah is named in 5 verses, and the name is written 6 times in them — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

Read it

Where to read it

Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 2 books. The name is written 6 times in them.

  1. 2 Kings4 verses

    16:1016:1116:1516:16

  2. Isaiah1 verse

    8:2

Onward

Where this page goes

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Where they appear

Chapter by chapter

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Sources

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