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    4 others in the registry answer to the name Uriah. Every Uriah in the Bible

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    Uriah

    אוּרִיָּה

    Uriah was a priest during the reign of King Ahaz who followed the king's instructions in building a new altar based on a pagan model from Damascus.

    verses
    5
    first named
    2 Kings 16:10
    last named
    Isaiah 8:2
    period
    Divided Monarchy
    role
    Man

    Description

    Who was Uriah?

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Uriah was a priest who served during the reign of King Ahaz of Judah (2Ki.16.10-16; Isa.8.2). When Ahaz visited Damascus to meet with the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser, he saw a pagan altar that impressed him. Ahaz sent a model of the altar to Uriah, instructing him to build a replica in Jerusalem. Uriah faithfully followed the king's instructions and built the altar. Upon Ahaz's return, the king made offerings on the new altar and modified the temple's ritual to accommodate it, displacing the bronze altar prescribed by God. Uriah's compliance with the king's orders, despite their departure from proper worship, reflects the religious compromise and syncretism that characterized Ahaz's reign. The prophet Isaiah mentions Uriah as a witness to his prophecy about the coming Immanuel (Isa.8.2), suggesting that Uriah was a recognized figure in Jerusalem's priestly community.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    How the graph connects Uriah7 of 7 entities the graph connects to Uriah, in 2 groups: company 1, events 6. Kinship, company and ground are stated relations; events counts the acts two entities stand in together and is not a relation. Each mark is sized by how many verses name that entity and labelled with the link and the count, so the grouping and the size are both readable without colour. Distance from the centre carries nothing.Ahaz’s sendingTook part in · 2 versesCompanyDamascus1 event · 55 versesAhaz2 events · 37 versesObedience1 event · 29 versesAltar1 event · 4 versesAhaz’s return1 event · 2 versesZechariah1 event · 1 verseEventsUriah

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    Stands in the same events as

    Places

    Where this happens

    The places the claims about this person reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.

    Where the story of Uriah happensThe one place the claims about Uriah reach, on a map of the world the text moves through, framed to them: Damascus. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer, sized by how many rows put Uriah there. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Damascus
    Divided MonarchyThe one place the claims about Uriah reach

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 2 books. The name is written 6 times in them.

    1. 2 Kings4 verses

      16:1016:1116:1516:16

    2. Isaiah1 verse

      8:2

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via Ahaz’s sendingAhazKing of Judah, son of Jothamvia Ahaz’s sendingSendingSending is a concept gathering 488 labelled instances in the text.

    Where they appear

    Chapter by chapter

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this person appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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    What this rests on