Urijah

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Urijah
     the lord is my light. (1.) A high priest in the time of Ahaz (2
     Kings 16:10-16), at whose bidding he constructed an idolatrous
     altar like one the king had seen 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."