The Hebrews, upon their entry into Canaan, had been commanded (Deuteronomy 20:16–17) to kill "anything that breathes. The name Uriah is of Hebrew origin, a theophoric name referencing Yahweh, meaning "the L ORD (Yahweh) is my light."īased on the Biblical account, Uriah was probably of the ethnic Hittite minority resident in Israel that had lived in and around the region, "the Land of Canaan", since before the time of Abraham. Following Uriah's death, David took Bathsheba as his eighth 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. But Uriah, being a disciplined soldier, refused to visit his wife. In an effort to hide his misdeeds, David called Uriah home from war, hoping that he and Bathsheba would have relations and that he would be able to pass the child off as belonging to Uriah. Moved by lust at the sight of her, David called for Bathsheba to be brought to him and slept with her, impregnating her. While Uriah was serving in David's army abroad, David himself, from the roof of his palace, looked down on his city and spied upon Bathsheba bathing in the privacy of her courtyard. Uriah the Hittite ( Hebrew: אוּרִיָּה הַחִתִּי ʾŪrīyyā 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. Pieter Lastman, David handing over a letter to Uriah, 1619.
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