Bible Person
Male · 5 cross references
This Urijah entry refers to the high priest in Ahaz's reign who complies with the king's altered altar arrangements, not Urijah the prophet in Jeremiah. He is remembered for cooperation with a deeply compromised act of worship reform. First appears in 2 Kgs 16:10.1
AI summary: This Urijah matters because the cross references present him as a high priest who yields sacred authority to royal unfaithfulness. By constructing and administering the Damascus-style altar at Ahaz's request, he becomes part of the distortion of Judah's worship life. His presence in Isaiah's witness list adds further irony to that compromised role. Taken together, the material presents this Urijah as a priest whose compliance helps normalize wrongful worship.1
Central Figure
Urijah
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.
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. 3
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.