Case File: Uriah the Hittite

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Subject Erac. 990 BC

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Case FileSAM-0011-U

ClearanceCOVENANT VI

COVENANT CLASSIFIEDSEALED UNDER OATH

DECLASSIFIED

Name	URIAH THE HITTITE
Aliases	THE LOYAL SOLDIER / HUSBAND OF BATHSHEBA
Status	DECEASED / SLAIN BY THE HAND OF THE ENEMY

Birth	c. 11th Century BC	Marks & Identifiers	NONE RECORDED
Place of Birth	JERUSALEM (RESIDENT)	Hair	DARK
Tribe	HITTITE (FOREIGN)	Eyes	DARK
Parentage	UNRECORDED	People	HITTITE / CONVERT TO ISRAEL
Occupation	SOLDIER / ONE OF THE THIRTY	Species	HUMAN
Affiliation	ARMY OF DAVID	Calling	A FAITHFUL WARRIOR WRONGED
Primary Mission	SERVE THE KING AND THE ARMY OF ISRAEL	Known Signs	THE REFUSED COMFORTS / THE LETTER HE CARRIED
Covenant Role	LOYAL SUBJECT BETRAYED BY HIS KING	Divine Access	SERVED THE LORD'S ARMY IN THE FIELD

// Field Assessment

Divine Encounter Level	NONE RECORDED	Classification	SOLDIER / MIGHTY MAN
Covenant Status	UPRIGHT AND LOYAL	Known Miracles	NONE RECORDED
Divine Commission	FAITHFUL IN DUTY	Threat Assessment	BETRAYAL / DEATH IN BATTLE
Mission Status	SLAIN BY DESIGN	Archive Category	LOYALTY / INJUSTICE

// Administrative Notes

Why he would not go home to his wife: THE ARK AND ISRAEL DWELL IN TENTS; SHALL I THEN GO TO MY HOUSE?

What the letter he carried commanded: SET URIAH IN THE FOREFRONT, THEN DRAW BACK, THAT HE MAY BE STRUCK DOWN

Remarks:

The subject was a Hittite by birth who had joined himself to Israel and become one of David's thirty mighty men, a soldier of proven valor and unbending loyalty, married to Bathsheba.

While he was away at the siege of Rabbah, David took Bathsheba and she conceived. To hide his sin, the king summoned the subject home, hoping he would go to his wife and the child seem his own.

But the subject would not take his ease. He slept at the palace gate with the servants, saying that while the ark and the army of Israel camped in the open field, he could not go home to eat, drink, and lie with his wife. Even made drunk, he would not go down to his house.

So David sent him back carrying his own death warrant, a letter to Joab ordering that he be placed in the fiercest fighting and then abandoned. The subject was struck down at the wall of Rabbah, faithful to the last.

His loyalty stood in stark contrast to the king's treachery. The prophet Nathan would later confront David with this very crime, and the sword would not depart from his house. The subject is named among the honored dead of Israel's mighty men.

Primary Sources:

2 SAMUEL 11

Secondary References:

2 SAMUEL 23:39

COVENANT
EYES ONLYRestricted // Sacred Record

// Lessons Learned

Faithfulness may go unrewarded by men, yet it is seen by God.
Sin covered by more sin only deepens the guilt.
The integrity of one servant can shame the powerful.

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