Pieter Lastman, David handing over a letter to Uriah, 1619.
Uriah the Hittite (Hebrew: אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּיʾŪrīyyā haḤītī) is a minor figure in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, an elite soldier in the army of David, king of Israel and Judah, and the husband of Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam. While Uriah was serving in David's army abroad, David, from the roof of his palace, looked down on his city and spied upon Bathsheba bathing in the privacy of her courtyard. Moved by lust at the sight of her, David called for Bathsheba to be brought to him and slept with her, impregnating her. In an effort to hide his misdeeds, David called Uriah home from war, hoping that he and Bathsheba would have sex and that he would be able to pass the child off as belonging to Uriah. However, Uriah, being a disciplined soldier, refused to visit his wife. So David murdered him by proxy by ordering all of Uriah's comrades to abandon him in the midst of battle, so that he ended up getting killed by an opposing army. Following Uriah's death, David took Bathsheba as his eighth wife.
UriahtheHittite (Hebrew: אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּי ʾŪrīyyā haḤītī) is a minor figure in the Hebrew Bible, mentioned in the Books of Samuel, an elite soldier...
Sheba" or "daughter of the oath") was the wife of UriahtheHittite and later of David, according to the Hebrew Bible. She was the mother of Solomon, who...
Habiru Hittites Neo-HittitesUriahtheHittite Mendenhall, George (1973). The Tenth Generation: The Origins of the Biblical Tradition. The Johns Hopkins University...
to: UriahtheHittite, a soldier in King David's army in the Books of Samuel Uriah (Book of Kings), a priest under Ahaz in the Books of Kings Uriah (prophet)...
Ark of the Covenant to the city. He commits adultery with Bathsheba and arranges the death of her husband, UriahtheHittite. David's son Absalom later...
husband, UriahtheHittite, to battle, and specifically to the front line wherein David ordered the commanding officer Joab to withdraw support for Uriah in...
horses, and in the Book of Genesis were friends and allies to Abraham. UriahtheHittite was a captain in King David's army and counted as one of his "mighty...
Kings Bathsheba – wife of UriahtheHittite and later of David, king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah. She was the mother of Solomon, who succeeded...
Rembrandt exhibition at the Rijksmuseum. It shows the moment when David sends UriahtheHittite to the frontline of the war with the Ammonites so that David...
commanded him all the days of his life, except in the matter of UriahtheHittite” (1 Kings 15:5), while it is skipped it completely in the Books of Chronicles...
crime, including insulting the Islamic prophet Muhammad in Islam, speaking the "sacred name" in Judaism, and blasphemy of the Holy Spirit is "eternal sin"...
UriahtheHittite, from battle, David encourages him to go home and see his wife, but Uriah declines in case David might need him, and sleeps in the doorway...
This is the site where King David had Bathsheba's husband UriahtheHittite killed. There are many Arab and Frankish castles from the period of the Crusades...
husband UriahtheHittite to be placed in the front of the battle, which leads to the death of Uriah. The works of Dante Alighieri, an Italian poet of the Middle...
the wife of UriahtheHittite. The story, related in 2 Samuel 11 describes how King David, who is shown as a small figure on a balcony in the top left corner...
magazines and the electronic media have covered it in depth. The Muckraker movement in American journalism was a component of the Progressive Era in the U.S. in...
regarding Bathsheba and UriahtheHittite (2 Samuel, chapter 11). In that light, the prayer is a model for looking to God for help even in the midst of God's chastisement...
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