This document is about Uriah (Priest_during_the_reign_of_King_Ahaz_of_Judah). For other homonyms, please refer to the Uriah document. Uriah the priest was a priest during the reign of Ahaz, king of Judah. He built an idol altar according to Ahaz's instruction to build an altar to a foreign god, which Ahaz had seen and brought back from Damascus.
2 Kings 16:8The king of Assyria listened to him; and the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried its people captive to Kir, and killed Rezin.2 Kings 16:9King Ahaz) went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.2 Kings 16:10Urijah the priest built an altar. According to all that king Ahaz) had sent from Damascus), so Urijah the priest made it for the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus.2 Kings 16:11When the king had come from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king came near to the altar, and offered on it.2 Kings 16:12He burned his burnt offering and his meal offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.2 Kings 16:13The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the front of the house, from between his altar and Yahweh’s house, and put it on the north side of his altar.2 Kings 16:14King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering, his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”2 Kings 16:15Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.2 Kings 16:16King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.