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search  Urijah (or Uriah in many English translations) is a
prophet mentioned in Jeremiah 26:20-23. He is described as being
the son of Shemaiah from Kirjath-jearim. During the reign of
Jehoiakim, king of Judah, 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."