Meaning
Urijah the lord is my light. (1.) A high priest in the time of Ahaz (2Kings 1:16-16), at whose bidding he constructed an idolatrous altar like one the king had See n at Damascus, to be set up instead of the brazen altar.
(2.) One of the priests who stood at the right hand of Ezra's pulpit when he read and expounded the law (Neh 8:4).
(3.) 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."
