Bible Person
Male · 3 cross references
This Urijah entry refers to the prophet from Kiriath-jearim who is pursued and executed under Jehoiakim, not to the father of Meremoth. He is one of the stark examples of prophetic vulnerability in Judah's last years. First appears in Jer 26:20.1
AI summary: This Urijah matters because the cross references place him alongside Jeremiah as a true prophetic voice confronting a hostile regime. His flight to Egypt and forced return only heighten the seriousness of the royal response, showing that Judah's leadership was willing to silence inconvenient truth by bloodshed. Taken together, the material presents this Urijah as a martyred prophet whose fate underscores the danger and cost of speaking God's word in a rebellious kingdom.1
Central Figure
Urijah
A prophet of Kirjath-jearim in the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah (Jer.
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.” 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.