Bible Person
Male · 1 cross reference
This Urijah entry refers to the priest who stands beside Ezra in Nehemiah 8:4, not to other priests or prophets of the same name elsewhere. He belongs to the public reading of the law in restored Jerusalem. First appears in Neh 8:4.1
AI summary: This Urijah matters because his single cross reference places him visibly within the solemn assembly where Scripture is read to the people. The entry helps show that post-exilic renewal was a public act supported by named priests and leaders. Taken together, the material presents this Urijah as a priestly witness in covenant renewal.1
Central Figure
Urijah
One of the priests who stood at the right hand of Ezra’s pulpit when he read and expounded the law (Neh.
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.