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Uriah (y  rī`ə), husband of Bath-sheba Bath-sheba (băth`-shēbə, –shē`bə), in the Bible, wife of Uriah the Hittite...... Click the link for more information. . An alternate form is Urias. For others called Uriah in the Bible, see Urijah 1 High priest under King Ahaz. An alternate form is Uriah. 2 Prophet killed by King Jehoiakim. 3 Ancestor of a priestly family. An alternte form is Uriah. 4 Companion of Ezra. ..... Click the link for more information. . Uriah letter Uriah carries David’s letter ordering his own death. [O.T.: II Samuel 11:15] See : Treachery |
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He had undergone some strange experiences in his absence; he had seen the virtual Faustina in the literal Cornelia, a spiritual Lucretia in a corporeal Phryne; he had thought of the woman taken and set in the midst as one deserving to be stoned, and of the wife of Uriah being made a queen; and he had asked himself why he had not judged Tess constructively rather than biographically, by the will rather than by the deed? Not the spare room, of course -- old maids can't aspire to spare rooms, and I shall be as 'umble as Uriah Heep, and quite content with a little over-the-porch or off-the-parlor cubby hole. Uriah Heap's father was a very poor judge of human nature, or he would not have told his son, as he did, that people liked humbleness. |
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Uriah